Dramatic Old Folk Art Very Heavy Soldered Iron Cross seagrass and stands up on its

and stands up on its own when open

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

from the photos and figurines on the mantle to the pictures hanging on the walls to the wallpaper trim around the ceiling to the room beyond the tasseled pulled back curtain

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

one could put a tiny shim or spot of wax underneath if wanting him to tilt back a little more (either way great

Dramatic Old Folk Art Very Heavy Soldered Iron Cross seagrass and stands up on itsWeighing 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