Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction iron and printmaker

and printmaker

it's a 2 ounce graduated jigger

or 2 for the pair

and an especially empathetic one for a friend with writer's block

eventually settling in Plymouth

Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction iron and printmakerI've got an obsession with representations of boxers, boxing matches, boxing rings a brutal sport, but also I think a beautiful one, as elemental and also existential as it gets. I've had a few carved push button boxing toys over the years, but this the first full blown folk art construction of a pair going at it inside a ring. One arm of each of the boxers will move manually, and both arms of the man in silver shirt. Platform, posts, and figures