Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush Wonderfully dark and craggy and

Wonderfully dark and craggy and sculptural and teeming with presence

and imagine they were made by the same person many years ago

Dating to the heyday of Spiritualism

but also the care its maker took in carving each of the pegs

) and a somewhat younger looking woman in shorts and collared shirt relaxing in her striped lounge chair on the terrace above

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush Wonderfully dark and craggy andWow. I love an old photo of a child with their toys, but this is a different level portrait entirely. This very very blonde, intense and otherworldly looking child keeps making me think of (Herzog muse) Klaus Kinski, and that amazing quilted wall evokes some dimension of Kubrick's The Shining, too. (Truly, I feel an electric current running through this photo.) With what looks to me to a sword in one hand, some sort of a cup with chains dangling from