The subject here is kabuki performer Nakamura Shikan II and his son Nakamura Komataro
I believe it dates to the late 70s or early 80s
Looks like an old glued repair mid-way down (or up
craggy sort of surface that makes it read more like concrete now
representation that almost reads like pure abstraction--lots of good things rolled into one
Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic The subject here is kabukiI love an old sewing lessons booklet like penmanship practice notebooks, each is its own thing depending on who made it and when, with lessons taught, materials used, etc varying over time. This is an especially brief one, just four samples completed by our young Eleanor, but I find them especially lovely in a very minimal, and also tenderly humble way, and especially for their handwritten captions, which feel almost like found poetry. Basting.