"The Old Man and the Sea," wood carving by Socha Svender

Scanned from my copy of the book Socha Sculptures Skulpturen, which presents the works of the German artist Socha Svender, most famous for her mid-century expressionist wood carvings of "Equatorial figures," the majority of them produced following the Svender couple's move to the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix) in the mid-1960s.

I love this book and it has a permanent place on my coffee table. It was originally printed in 1984 in West Germany. The binding is coming apart. Even trying to be as careful as possible, I still damaged it a lot in scanning these images.