Bundled Up Two Year Old with Santa! Old Real Photo Postcard oil on masonite The more earnest and awkward

The more earnest and awkward the better for me

I believe the images are screen prints on cardboard

facing off with cocks in hand--and with the shadow of what looks to be a woman in skirt hovering over them

it is exactly that

and terrific little stars inside of squares carved in the handle

Bundled Up Two Year Old with Santa! Old Real Photo Postcard oil on masonite The more earnest and awkwardSuch a delight to find this one in New Hampshire the other day, reminding one of the enduring and I think enduringly strange tradition of having children photographed with "Santa Claus." This Santa looks perhaps Inuit or Native American to me, and the set up, with painted backdrop and what appears like gravel underfoot, with some fabric bunched up in it too, looks as if having seen better days. Then this bundled up child, two years and four months