Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs dressage markers the only flaw is a

the only flaw is a few white paint drips on the front of the owl

While I usually gravitate toward older carvings

making the surface all the more interesting

This one feels like the sun shining bright over ancient pyramids

with those marks reading equally as tears

Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs dressage markers the only flaw is aThe shape of this old carved wood buoy does it for me, with the sway of the form making with think of a human figure, back arched and belly protruding. What makes it really beautiful to me, though, is the surface patina, particularly how the white paint shows a rainbow of scuffs and stains accumulated through banging up against other things. Like a 3 dimensional painting that might happily live next to a Frank Stella or Richard Tuttle, and I'd treat