Evocative Old Thumb Sucking Carved Figure in Pink Pajamas hanging bird cage and impish little shoes

and impish little shoes

maybe a little watercolor too

This old painting just made me laugh when I saw it--not just for the pipe this little boy (I assume) is smoking

And indeed

Evocative Old Thumb Sucking Carved Figure in Pink Pajamas hanging bird cage and impish little shoesAs someone who sucked her thumb for more years than I might do well to admit, this one may especially speak to me personally, but I think there is something pretty universally relatable about the simple self soothing gesture this carving articulates, in a wonderfully elemental way. The wear to the polychromed surface, and to the features of the face especially, make it all the better and more existential feeling I think, and what I take for pink