HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles heart-shaped box purchased from a New England

purchased from a New England dealer at one of the New Hampshire shows earlier this month

This gently browning golden apple is really a beauty I think

It measures approximately 52 1/2" x 35 1/2" without fringe

semi-circular wooden base of the scoop like a plug

cut paper mounted to paper

HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles heart-shaped box purchased from a New EnglandThis one, including for having raised some "Hands Off" signs lately (Hands Off Our Constiutution, Rule of Law, Bodies, etc.), feels to me especially poignant at the moment with the nibbling away to the lower edge seeming very much a metaphor for the persistent chipping away at democracy we are witnessing, another bite out every day. More broadly, quite a perfect embodiment distillation of the universal tension between declaration assertion warning and