Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique medical At some point along the

At some point along the way it lost a chunk of one ear

as a means of responding to the changed conditions of its mid-20th century context

a notion most supported by the fact of Surrealist interest in the writings of French occultist Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre {d’Alveydre the Equlibriste

including the number of Saturdays

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique medical At some point along theWow. 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