Homemade Antique Stereoview, Seated Woman in Hat in Landscape handmade scrap book I like the rustic-ness of

I like the rustic-ness of this one and its relatively large and fat links

just amazed by the fineness of their incised decoration

also gradually tapering

edited by Ron Padgett

Homemade Antique Stereoview, Seated Woman in Hat in Landscape handmade scrap book I like the rustic-ness ofI just love this image of young woman in fancy hat perched on what looks like a tree stump, hands folded primly on her knee and gazing off into space looking quite contemplative. There seems to me a certain absurdity to it all out in the middle of nowhere posing for a serious portrait but I also find a certain poignancy to it, as if a portrait of a woman stuck, looking in one direction while there is a whole world unfolding in the other (at upper