Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball grecian couple To my sensibilities

To my sensibilities

which dates to the 1880s

wonderfully folky

takes its inspiration from the poem by Alexander Pope reproduced below

and wonderfully tell the story of their construction from scraps of wood and and bits of woven trim for their hangers

Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball grecian couple To my sensibilitiesI guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made, and make but I don't believe I've ever actually come across one before, and to me this thing is rather transcendent as an object and a sculpture, making me think at least as much of Meret Oppenheim, say, as it does of a tumbleweed. No small feat to form such a dense and beautifully composed sphere as this while navigating the strength of the iron wire and its barbs either (!), yielding an object both