Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards Certainly it is a stuffed

Certainly it is a stuffed one

I just think it is a pretty great object

The decorative cut wood bits

and pulling apart as needed

and I'd call it Brutalist--unapologetically bold and rough and all about its materiality--but also rather playful about it function as a vase

Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards Certainly it is a stuffedI purchased this from a dealer in my neck of the woods, who travelled and collected extensively, and interestingly, in Southeast Asia over many years. The text here is in Hindi, though I have not managed to translate it. What struck me first was the wonderful grid of faces of this woman at lower left, a mix of frontal and profile views with some great expressions among them, looking a whole lot like strips of photo booth selfies (or an instagram