Sweet Old Folk Art Carved Small Standing Frame with Photo oil on postcard with a bit of blue

with a bit of blue bleed here and there

as if they were physical structures one might occupy (a house

and so feels somehow more hopeful and future oriented than a mundane daily chore

) On the reverse side is a non-gridded parallel image of the same

with several pages toward the end of broad Spencerian flourishes

Sweet Old Folk Art Carved Small Standing Frame with Photo oil on postcard with a bit of blueA very sweet old carved folk art standing frame, the form of which makes it look (to me at least) as if the photo itself is being held lovingly in a hand or cupped between two hands, with thumbs to the sides and the tips of three fingers above it. Framing the old snapshot of young child seated on a bench in front of a rock formation are three wooden pieces, carved to look like rope. No fourth piece at the bottom, likely lost, but as is one could