with an ink smudge on the woman
and makes me happy every time I look at it
I have long admired these sorts of tiles-- produced in the 18th and 19th century during the Qajar period in Persia--which very frequently feature hunters on horses like this one
still super useful as a pin cushion
a brilliant secret hiding place
Condense Factory Fire at Night, 1908 Real Photo Postcard sandpaper painting with an ink smudge onI believe the Condense Factory captured here on fire was in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada, and though I am not 100% sure I think may have produced condensed milk. In any case, quite a spectacular and haunting photograph, all the more so for the details captured, from the illuminated frame of the house like structure at right, what look perhaps to be picnic tables in the foreground, and what might be a shadowy figure at left. Plus the spark filled black