Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous but surely this could be

but surely this could be used for that as well

The vase features a wonderfully earthy

to be incorporated as front and back panels of a Kuna woman's blouse

There is some spotting on its base

as there is a hole that runs through the handle near the end through which a string or wire could pass

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous but surely this could beI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately