EXPOSED Glass Plate Negative Holder (Poignant Readymade) jets and what a marvelous photograph

and what a marvelous photograph whatever the case

such that one just feels the presence of that life on every page--and this one is a case in point

Very naive but also quite delicate

9 7/8" x 7 7/8""

Clearly a folk art creation--and I really love that one glass eye sits a little higher than the other--but the carving of the body has a muscular power to it

EXPOSED Glass Plate Negative Holder (Poignant Readymade) jets and what a marvelous photographI love this as a found object, complete unto itself (and which feels like it pretty much sums up everything) though one could also alter it by placing two glass plate slides inside, which would change its nature. (I had one of these previously that still had glass plates in it which made it feel very much like the encapsulation of a peep show; black shades veiling glass windows which one could then sliding open to expose them.) Here, it is just