Ernest Trova "Trovascope" for MOMA, 1974 antique fan no chips or cracks or

no chips or cracks or other flaws at all that I can see

created by catching strands of grass under select stiches

and lots of rusting to the nails

which makes me think of little Miss Muffett sitting on her tuffet

There is some vertical rippling to the paper toward the right side of the image

Ernest Trova "Trovascope" for MOMA, 1974 antique fan no chips or cracks orI found one of these several months ago, and will buy others if I find them as I think they're excellent. It is a "Trovascope" designed by artist Ernest Trova (1927 2009) for the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. I think more artists should design kaleidoscopes, but Trova was especially well suited to creating a very graphically satisfying one, with his "falling man" silhouettes lending themselves to all sorts of interesting kaleidoscopic permutations!