The Nightingale bundle The Tinsoldier tapers toward his

The Tinsoldier tapers toward his base

Just a form that rewards the kind of attention most objects never get

while the copper wire detail traces the eyes and the beek

Just the shape

The Nightingale bundle The Tinsoldier tapers toward hisNOT EVERYTHING VALUABLE GLITTERS Hans Christian Andersen wrote of an Emperor who traded a living bird for a jeweled machine and nearly paid for it with his life. It took the real nightingale's return, and its simple, unornamented song, to call Death itself away from the throne. The Nightingale figurine holds onto that same plainness. Walnut forms the upper body, dark and warm, meeting a lighter maple below two woods, one bird, shaped into a single