Ken Goldstrom 1975 Man and Telephone Ceramic Bas Relief Tile plaster faces (The perfect complement to the

(The perfect complement to the "shabby chic" flower painting I just listed

with just a bit of wear/loss of white paint--plus some white paint spatters on his wooden legs

Shlomo Angel) sought to identify essential

and also stiff enough to just prop somewhere And the colors—I believe acrylic paint—are even brighter and lusher than photos capture

Ken Goldstrom 1975 Man and Telephone Ceramic Bas Relief Tile plaster faces (The perfect complement to theThis is one of three hand painted vintage 1970s ceramic tiles by Ken Goldstrom that I just found in Maine, and which I think are just right and just terrific. Based in Beverly, MA, Goldstrom has been creating small scale ceramic sculpture and tiles in a similar manner for many decades (unbeknownst to me until now), which he describes as "typically playful, sometimes whimsical, sometimes dark." In this one, his portrayal of the dynamic between a man