Dramatic Old Folk Art Very Heavy Soldered Iron Cross seagrass With great graphic appeal

With great graphic appeal

minor dings

and a little wear around the edges of the label

I found a great fungus conk pyrographed with an owl a month or two ago by the same maker that signed this one

It's a bit hard to tell if all carved of one piece of wood or whether the legs were adhered

Dramatic Old Folk Art Very Heavy Soldered Iron Cross seagrass With great graphic appealWeighing in at almost nine pounds, this cross is not to be moved! I love it for its emphatic materiality, and dramatic tilt (seems very Rock of Ages to me, as if Faith herself should be clinging to it amid a stormy sea). And I love it for all the effort put into all that soldering around the base, looking like the roots of trees (or streaming seaweed.) All of which, together with a sort of God's Eye at the center, adds up to a super folky but also