Evocative Old Thumb Sucking Carved Figure in Pink Pajamas hanging bird cage and the interior shows light

and the interior shows light rust but is clean and in good shape

maybe a little watercolor too

and impish little shoes

And indeed

” Goldenseal

Evocative Old Thumb Sucking Carved Figure in Pink Pajamas hanging bird cage and the interior shows lightAs someone who sucked her thumb for more years than I might do well to admit, this one may especially speak to me personally, but I think there is something pretty universally relatable about the simple self soothing gesture this carving articulates, in a wonderfully elemental way. The wear to the polychromed surface, and to the features of the face especially, make it all the better and more existential feeling I think, and what I take for pink