Beautiful, elegant pendant
An excellently crafted koi pendant by Henry Anthony Sanny. Good size and weight for a man and well proportioned with an interesting subtle asymmetry in the design itself. The koi according to tradition is associated with courage, strength, fortitude and perseverance, and is also according to legend, associated with dragons. I am very happy with this purchase which was for myself, and thank the artist for his wish that he "hopes the man who wears his design will always have luck and fortune." I will certainly endeavor in my life, to make that happen. Again, thank you Mr. Sanny (and Novica) for this wonderful work
The cats are creepy, but I love it regardless!
Eliazar Ochoa is one of half a dozen Peruvian artisans whose page I try to check every month or so for new work; I had a rug and another tapestry by him already. I love depictions of animals. especially when they are animals you don't commonly see depicted as with llamas and rheas, two distinctly South American animals (my other tapestry from him is all condors). And while purple is my favorite color, I do like orange as well, and I saw there was a bit of purple in this. This tapestry currently occupies pride of place, on the door to my office. Which means that at close range, I've realized the faces of the cats are kind of creepy. But I'm not really sure how you could do better on a loom, and I have also seen much worse cat faces! As I look at them more, I think I definitely prefer : | to a badly done : 3 (the most popular simplified cat face), and it makes a lot more sense on a loom as well!
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