Dramatic Photo of Man at Work on Wings in Barn, with Hanging Geese and Flock of Sheep ceremonial humble as can be

humble as can be

and for what one imagines was this woman's pure pleasure in skating

I'm content just to play with and admire it

it seems to me both about the materiality and constructed/illusory nature of painting itself and also about the subject himself

Dramatic Photo of Man at Work on Wings in Barn, with Hanging Geese and Flock of Sheep ceremonial humble as can beAnother quite striking old photo I think, very dramatically lit, with the two white geese hanging at far left illuminated as if by heavenly light, and the sheep at right raked in bright light too. And then this man at center, working away with great focus he appears to be carefully clipping the wings of a bird, with bowls, notebook, a glass bottle and a few more birds laid our before him. Like an artist in his studio, or a chemist in his lab,