I woke up to this email blast from Moss, usually one of my favorite design stores:

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Now, I’m all for postmodern irony and the occasional sick and twisted pop culture moment, but a crocheted Heath Ledger finger puppet?!   

I couldn’t help but surmise where this would fall on New York Magazine’s approval matrix…highbrow despicable?  Highbrow brilliant?  

I think the artist, Francesca Basilico, subsumes a category all her own: wannabe-highbrow-brilliant-yet-despicably-self-indulgent.

It’s especially telling that this “collector’s item” is now on sale…