Dramatic Old Folk Art Very Heavy Soldered Iron Cross seagrass I found a great fungus

I found a great fungus conk pyrographed with an owl a month or two ago by the same maker that signed this one

minor dings

Some pencil writing on first few pages too

It's a bit hard to tell if all carved of one piece of wood or whether the legs were adhered

Dramatic Old Folk Art Very Heavy Soldered Iron Cross seagrass I found a great fungusWeighing in at almost nine pounds, this cross is not to be moved! I love it for its emphatic materiality, and dramatic tilt (seems very Rock of Ages to me, as if Faith herself should be clinging to it amid a stormy sea). And I love it for all the effort put into all that soldering around the base, looking like the roots of trees (or streaming seaweed.) All of which, together with a sort of God's Eye at the center, adds up to a super folky but also