Woman in Black with Painterly Tree, Curious Full Plate Folk Art Tintype print on rice paper from the water crashing against

from the water crashing against rocks

which was quite an active chapter

with its  no-fuss directness

looks great on the wall

With this finely striped backdrop--looks like the wall of a tent

Woman in Black with Painterly Tree, Curious Full Plate Folk Art Tintype print on rice paper from the water crashing againstShe's an odd one, with the soul of a poet to me and, with black paint covering all but the bottom edge of her dress (revealing its stripes), I keep thinking of her as something of a young Sandra Day O'Connor in her black robe, too! As with her dress, the drape at right is painted onto the full plate tintype in black and as with that marvelous passage along the bottom edge, where tintype photo meets abstract painting, so it does again in the very