Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark willimansett This hand thrown

This hand thrown

Part of one of his feet has chipped off

Maine-based ceramicist Jeffrey Lipton

If anything ever had a warm patina

Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark willimansett This hand thrownI guess these sorts of men, carved out of (into?) a knotty old piece of wood with bark still on it, are often referred to as mountain men, or wood spirits. I think of this guy as more of a hermit, and in fact he makes me think of Saint Francis in the wild, living at peace among the forest and animals. Though not easy to photograph (he absorbs all the light!), he's quite wonderfully done I think and definitely quite old; the wood is worn smooth with a