Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work metal folk art bird' with lovely turned details on

with lovely turned details on the lid and foot

and are both are really stunning

a classic example

but only carved out at one end

with some nice crustiness to the surface

Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work metal folk art bird' with lovely turned details onNot for the feint of heart, but quite a striking and potent as well as unusual cut paper silhouette, I'd say. Which, as I look at it, seems all to hinge on this woman standing before the beheaded figure I'd like to imagine it is she who has finally gotten justice. (Being strongly averse to capital punishment, myself, I'll read that justice as metaphorical.) Hard to look at a silhouetted scene like this without thinking of the work of Kara Walker now,