Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush Dating to the heyday of

Dating to the heyday of Spiritualism

The drawers

Wonderfully dark and craggy and sculptural and teeming with presence

with paper garlands and stars and lots of angels

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

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush Dating to the heyday ofWow. 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