Lovely Old Vertebrae Bone with Secret Skull main e and thinking about it

and thinking about it

Ink and colored pencil over pencil

I find abacus' rewardingly useful for tracking of all sorts of things (i

the traces of rows and rows of old cursive writing are still visible on the stone if you look for them

Lovely Old Vertebrae Bone with Secret Skull main e and thinking about itI found this in a wonderful shop filled with all sorts of interesting antiques and curiosities, and though I'm not especially oriented towards bones and things, it struck me as a very beautifully sculptural object, which becomes a different thing from every view. It was not until I was photographing it that I noticed a secret surprise: visible in the first image, in the right recess, is what looks like a tiny skull! (Maybe I'm crazy, but to me it's