Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl though it looks a bit

though it looks a bit like a cherry stem

and for the  great combo of colors all together

this is a wonderful

I'm always on the hunt for interesting whimsies carved from one piece of wood

a UNESCO world heritage site filled with thousand year old Viking rune stones and burial mounds

Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl though it looks a bitI have no idea the story behind this plaster bust, but I think it's wonderful. I love how completely androgynous the figure is, who I take for a young Roman, perhaps Julius Caesar himself, crowned with metal laurel wreath but really I think it could be anyone one wants, and without the crown reminds me a lot of an old Santos figure. The figure's face itself transforms a little, too, depending on point of view, so he, or she, or they, remain always a