Perfect Form, Satisfying Old Fat Pencil Shaped Brass Plumb Bob first edition 1906 This small photo has lived

This small photo has lived quite a life

and also feeling somewhat anthropomorphic

and also of a blimp

composed by joining halves of two different woods

which lend a sort of mystery and elusiveness to their subjects

Perfect Form, Satisfying Old Fat Pencil Shaped Brass Plumb Bob first edition 1906 This small photo has livedI love an old plumb just as an object (and they also always make me think of the model of French physicist J. B. L. Foucault's 1851 pendulum in the rotunda of the National Museum of History in Washington DC, which I visited frequently as was fascinated by as a child) and this to my eye is about as beautiful as they come. Solid brass I believe, beautiful form, great patina, satisfying to hold and to just set, or hang, somewhere. 6 7 8 l x 1 d, weights