Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark willimansett If anything ever had a

If anything ever had a warm patina

At first I took this small vase with its terrific patterning as an Art Deco piece

I might use it as a serving dish

Maine-based ceramicist Jeffrey Lipton

Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark willimansett If anything ever had aI guess these sorts of men, carved out of (into?) a knotty old piece of wood with bark still on it, are often referred to as mountain men, or wood spirits. I think of this guy as more of a hermit, and in fact he makes me think of Saint Francis in the wild, living at peace among the forest and animals. Though not easy to photograph (he absorbs all the light!), he's quite wonderfully done I think and definitely quite old; the wood is worn smooth with a