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

painted black and silver

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

I just didn't quite have the patience

and if nothing else

whittling carefully away

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