Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome signed Chinese pith painting this one may especially speak

this one may especially speak to me personally

I think he'd be a beautiful thing to frame

and a bit mysterious too-- with no doors or windows

I especially love the incorporation of what I take for a utility pole at lower right

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome signed Chinese pith painting this one may especially speakA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the