Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo 19th century print closed 6 1/8" long x

closed 6 1/8" long x 7/8" wide x 1/4" deep

8 3/4" x 6 3/4"

Watercolor/gouache on paper or card

"Be ever industrious"

but it looks to me perhaps to be made of porcelain

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo 19th century print closed 6 1/8" long xI 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