Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names #2 (Ginger George and Little George), 1860s graph from 1980--while maintaining a consistent

from 1980--while maintaining a consistent focus on Haitian subjects

tearing around the edges

finger jointed sides and a cardboard bottom

like a colorful modernist tower--found the other day at a little antique shop in Rhode Island

He will stand up on his own (he is balancing on his own in all photos)

Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names #2 (Ginger George and Little George), 1860s graph from 1980--while maintaining a consistentThis came from a small collection of hair locks and wreaths I just purchased, all dating to the 1860s and all stitched to or tucked into bits of paper annotated with names and notes. I considered listing them as a collection, but realized much of what I find beautiful about these is their specificity and singularity in form and content (color, composition, etc.) and so am more inclined to treat them as individual drawings (and portraits) of sorts, and