Puzzling Old Interlocking Whimsy Carving bamboo artist made

artist made

people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this

and rather like the way his posture now centers around his one good foot

a long and tall ball in cage feeling as much a modernist sculpture as a whimsy

Certainly a perfect gift for one’s love

Puzzling Old Interlocking Whimsy Carving bamboo artist madeI've been living with this one awhile so as to enjoy it and puzzle over it! before parting with it. My pondering was on whether it is actually composed of two tightly interlocking pieces of wood or was just incised on the surface to give that illusion but I've now learned that indeed this was a carpenter's trick, and so this a carpenter's whimsy. I love it as a very satisfying physical object (there is absolutely no wiggle between those two pieces;