Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards They read as brass

They read as brass

This marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting"--a technique popular in the mid 19th century

In great vintage condition

I think this piece probably dates from the 1990s or so

Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards They read as brassThis one makes me want to both laugh and cry every time I look at it, and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void! The texture of the wall upon which this cat costumed child rests their hand so contemplatively to my eye is especially right, as is the flop of the left ear and the white bow at the end of the tail. Kind of amazing. The photograph, which I