Potato Sack Race, Two Views, Vintage Two Frame Contact Strip ceramic cooking pot To my eye this is

To my eye this is really a beautiful old box

I love the moodiness of this old oil on board painting

It is signed -- once below the text

Man or woman I am not entirely sure

but the woven paper hearts at the corners make it especially special

Potato Sack Race, Two Views, Vintage Two Frame Contact Strip ceramic cooking pot To my eye this isI was am struck by the excellent juxtaposition of views here: at top a perfectly staggered line up of five young potato sack race competitors in profile, ready to go, (and in perfectly descending size), and below, three facing squarely front, again forming a perfect diagonal (with one rear end as punctuation!) I'm not entirely sure how to articulate it, but to me the effect is a sense of simultaneity, as if the photographer were standing in two places