Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy heart How much fun it would

How much fun it would be to wear this carved and painted wooden mask with this long

The piece is by Vassilios Giavis (b

enhancing the immediacy of the figures and giving them a bit of a sculptural quality

one color at a time

I really love its fat-walled

Striking Old Folk Art Root Head Carved Wood Decoy heart How much fun it wouldI don't much collect decoys, which represent a whole different world of expertise, but I found this such a striking and perfectly stark object that I could not resist it. I really love the long neck and dramatic angle of that root head terminating in white painted beak, and then the wonderful rich dark charcoal black of the carved body with rounded belly. On the underside is a metal plate which allows it to stay upright on the water (and it does