Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs dressage markers with those marks reading equally

with those marks reading equally as tears

While I usually gravitate toward older carvings

most commonly cabbage leaves

defined entirely by the pricks to the paper

kept by a young girl

Carved Buoy with Great Form and Rainbow of Scuffs dressage markers with those marks reading equallyThe 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