Aptly Eroded INFORMATION Sign mid-century animal A beauty of a basket

A beauty of a basket

pehaps to be taken as a symbol of spiritual fortitude

and which I'd guess dates to the 1920s or so

And then this wonderfully sculptural dress and fine wisps of hair framing her covered face

Heavy and very satisfying

Aptly Eroded INFORMATION Sign mid-century animal A beauty of a basketIve gotten so that I am somewhat less interested in great old signs for their own sake (though I am still!) than I am in what signs signify, specifically when that signification is not what was originally intended, but rather the product of age and wear and or recontextualization. This was not an especially special sign to begin with, but it seems to me just right as a distillation of our mis disinformation age that it should be rusted and eroding all