Tramp Art Crate Wood Trunk / Cabinet with Interior Shelf antique albumen photo with some rusting

with some rusting

from church

the folkier the better

it's a perfect found object to me

Tramp Art Crate Wood Trunk / Cabinet with Interior Shelf antique albumen photo with some rustingThis is large scale for me a tabletop chest (which with a little effort could also be mounted on the wall) with swing opening front door and interior shelf, all constructed of, and decorated with, pieces of crate wood. The chunky scale and improvisatory feeling forms of the chip carved, nailed on pieces feel to me one part trampy, one part modernist, making me think a bit of the work of Louise Nevelson (which I deeply love.) An unusual one, and a