Allen Smith's WWII Era Red and White Signal Flags, A Pair log chopping bookends ends the prolific and endlessly inventive

the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist who made this piece

as well as a bit of adventure to one's morning coffee ritual

and how happy I am to find them

There are a couple of tiny scratches in the quartz and perhaps some very aging to the silver of the beak

I keep thinking of Safdie's Habitat 67 in Montreal

Allen Smith's WWII Era Red and White Signal Flags, A Pair log chopping bookends ends the prolific and endlessly inventiveTo my eye, these are just so pretty, of course reminding me of red and white diagonal color cube blocks, but able to be hung on the wall, and all the better for the aging to the cloth I think, including a few rust stains from the nails attaching them to the wooden handles. From what I understand, red and white diagonal flags like this are used to signify that someone is in the water, warning other boats nearby to take extra caution. And so, perhaps a