Partial and in Full, Pair of Photos of Lovely Young Woman in Printed Dress carving The framework is held together

The framework is held together with twelve handmade nails with irregular rectangular heads

x 3/4" thick

white and black spots and stripes

with an old newspaper (Ben-Day dotted) face on the bottom--perhaps a photo of their maker

and Milton Bradley

Partial and in Full, Pair of Photos of Lovely Young Woman in Printed Dress carving The framework is held togetherWhat a lovely young woman in her freckles and calico dress, surrounded by a wall of leaves and flowers (of which she seems very much a part), and all the better in double, with the masking of all but her face in the first print making it feel as if she were coming into bloom right before our eyes. I love both images on their own, but for me it is all about the pairing, reminding one of the constructed nature of every image while also, through absence,