Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard and lined with wood inside

and lined with wood inside

a bit of dark green stain visible at the center of the underside

and then on the next page these great X's and squares in watercolor framing "A Child's Prayer

red and white paper surface

and all the better for them--to my eye

Hand-sculpted Nina Koch Winkel Modernist Figure with Repairs vintage postcard and lined with wood insideTo me it feels rather right that this cubist style figure should show breaks and repairs in multiple places furthering the sense of fragmentation, and for the fact that it seems to reference a limbless Classical nude to begin with. I find it quite a beautiful and affecting thing, more so for the scattered stains and especially the darkening along the edges, which amplify its dramatic lines and stylized form. There is a signature at the base of the