Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting Photos show all pages with

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Hand-sculpted of very dark and gritty clay with very painterly glazing on eyes

and with a head that also reminds me a bit of a seagull

Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 5/8

3 3/8" tall x 1 1/4" wide x 7/8" deep

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting Photos show all pages withI believe this lone figure is a clam digger, the end of his rake concealed. I live much of the year on the water, and have occasionally watched a clam digger out in the muck at low tide on the coldest days of winter, which has struck me, as this photograph does, as about the most existential feeling thing in the world. But this photograph feels very Zen too, with the ripples on the surface of the water evoking raked sand in a Japanese garden, which