EXPOSED Glass Plate Negative Holder (Poignant Readymade) jets Clearly a folk art creation--and

Clearly a folk art creation--and I really love that one glass eye sits a little higher than the other--but the carving of the body has a muscular power to it

9 7/8" x 7 7/8""

and what a marvelous photograph whatever the case

Very naive but also quite delicate

rendered in the brilliant saturated colors of Pennsylvania fraktur watercolors

EXPOSED Glass Plate Negative Holder (Poignant Readymade) jets Clearly a folk art creation--andI love this as a found object, complete unto itself (and which feels like it pretty much sums up everything) though one could also alter it by placing two glass plate slides inside, which would change its nature. (I had one of these previously that still had glass plates in it which made it feel very much like the encapsulation of a peep show; black shades veiling glass windows which one could then sliding open to expose them.) Here, it is just