Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland oil on board

oil on board

Wear to the lower left corner

but sturdy and stable and stands flush to the ground

but it feels rather more like a lobster boat in spirit

Another reminder of what an exciting hub of cross-disciplinary thinking and practice MIT has been

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland oil on boardI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.