Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure guache on paper This sweet thing

This sweet thing

perfectly clean tear on the left edge midway down

9 3/4" tall with handle

The zig zag design on both interior and exterior is striking

Fabulous, Strange Crocheted Lace Medallion with Figure guache on paper This sweet thingThis is a fairly small piece just shy of 6 inches in. diameter but what a lot of is packed into those inches, and what a marvelously strange thing! I really love things that are both intensely of their medium and also entirely transcend it, which I feel is the case with this piece, applying a great command of the craft to articulating a very singular vision. The figure to me has a bit of the feel of Adam in the Garden of Eden, falling from grace, or