Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball grecian couple and wonderfully tell the story

and wonderfully tell the story of their construction from scraps of wood and and bits of woven trim for their hangers

I remain perpetually on the hunt for great tramp art pieces

I really love the hand-painted face with orange cheeks and great black ruffle on the white collar

a shop and gallery at 165 Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay

Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball grecian couple and wonderfully tell the storyI guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made, and make but I don't believe I've ever actually come across one before, and to me this thing is rather transcendent as an object and a sculpture, making me think at least as much of Meret Oppenheim, say, as it does of a tumbleweed. No small feat to form such a dense and beautifully composed sphere as this while navigating the strength of the iron wire and its barbs either (!), yielding an object both