Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype 1917 carving warmly worn around the edges

warmly worn around the edges

the complexity of nature and the subtlety of truth

and I think perhaps also down the back vertically

perhaps the frame was made just for it

but also for its lineage among what one imagines are many thousands of similar photos taken at this tree over many many years

Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype 1917 carving warmly worn around the edgesA girl after my own heart looking full of attitude and with a mind very much of her own. Her hand painted golden necklace makes her feel even more like a princess, with pale blue ribbons and sash to boot. Alone, I would love her, but it is the inclusion of half her mother in the frame that makes this just right to my eye formally compositionally, but also in terms of the dynamic her presence introduces, as if this child were midway through the process