Heads Turned, Praying Hands, Hanging Portrait, Wonderfully Evocative Antique Double Exposure Mini RPPC blind wooden dog This wonderful little solid brass

This wonderful little solid brass duck lives most happily on a desk

and I think she's a pretty terrific example of both--but also might be read as carrying all sorts of wartime connotations relative to surrender and liberation

very rich dry patina to the wood

who opened a studio in Haarlem around 1917

Heads Turned, Praying Hands, Hanging Portrait, Wonderfully Evocative Antique Double Exposure Mini RPPC blind wooden dog This wonderful little solid brassI'm not fixated on double exposure photos for their own sake, but sometimes, when the stars align, super evocative, otherworldly sorts of images emerge as a result. I find that to be very much the case here, and am fairly obsessed with this one with the second image that of a man with what look to be praying hands, standing like a spectre over this young woman, here eyes cast upward too. almost as if she's summoned him. And the black of his suit robe