Stunning, Sculptural Old Folk Art Barbed Wire Basket sun rubber painted black and silver

painted black and silver

I just didn't quite have the patience

And someone really cared about either this palette or this painting

and I really like the fairly rustic approach to what I typically think of as a pretty refined object

Stunning, Sculptural Old Folk Art Barbed Wire Basket sun rubber painted black and silverMy favorite find of the week and since finding a large, wound barbed wire ball a month or so ago, which I might have sold 20 times over, I've had a keen eye out for old barbed wire, though I never expected a beautifully crafted basket to land in my proverbial lap! For me, this is about both its emphatic materiality, and its transcendence an uncanny thing, more a sculpture than a functional object, though it is quite a sturdy basket should one wish to