Evocative Old Thumb Sucking Carved Figure in Pink Pajamas hanging bird cage maybe a little watercolor too

maybe a little watercolor too

And indeed

and impish little shoes

published by Lith Anst

Evocative Old Thumb Sucking Carved Figure in Pink Pajamas hanging bird cage maybe a little watercolor tooAs someone who sucked her thumb for more years than I might do well to admit, this one may especially speak to me personally, but I think there is something pretty universally relatable about the simple self soothing gesture this carving articulates, in a wonderfully elemental way. The wear to the polychromed surface, and to the features of the face especially, make it all the better and more existential feeling I think, and what I take for pink