The decorative cut wood bits
with one very tiny barely there sailing ship in the far distance at right in addition to the one nearer afield at left
and I'd call it Brutalist--unapologetically bold and rough and all about its materiality--but also rather playful about it function as a vase
Watercolor on card weight paper
I just think it is a pretty great object
Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards The decorative cut wood bitsI purchased this from a dealer in my neck of the woods, who travelled and collected extensively, and interestingly, in Southeast Asia over many years. The text here is in Hindi, though I have not managed to translate it. What struck me first was the wonderful grid of faces of this woman at lower left, a mix of frontal and profile views with some great expressions among them, looking a whole lot like strips of photo booth selfies (or an instagram