Two Awkward Carved Nudes - ONLY LEFT NUDE AVAILABLE flouncy I then opened the box

I then opened the box to discover the whetstone inside--making this quite the useful box

These will be packed SUPER carefully for safe travel

one small knick on the lip of the wide end

and is emblematic of Takei's woodblock prints

Some old hand-painted postcards I love for their curiosity of their imagery and captions

Two Awkward Carved Nudes - ONLY LEFT NUDE AVAILABLE flouncy I then opened the boxRight nude SOLD; Left AVAILABLE One of my favorite genres of carvings has definitely become what I'd call awkward nudes clearly done with great care and sincerity, but not quite masterfully, with the faces especially betraying the idealized bodies and poses the carving was clearly hoping to achieve. For me, these embody a big part of what I love about folk art the embodiment of lots of aspiration, hard trying, and very often "failure". And so while