No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object antique American photo The basketry on all is

The basketry on all is finely done with sweet grass and ash splint

with perfectly rounded sides and a deep suck inward at the center

it seems perhaps a portrait of the dynamics of a relationship

The house on the hill in the distance

especially on the back side

No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object antique American photo The basketry on all isI have no idea what this was once attached to; it doesn't seem deep enough to have been a handle or pull perhaps it was a salesman sample of sort, number 22 of who knows how many? Whatever the case, it's a perfect found object to me, with the No (as in No. 22) next to the RELIEF reading as No Relief which of course often seems to be the case these days on numerous sorts of levels! (At the same time one might read it Relief in its 22nd form, and as I