Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush and imagine they were made

and imagine they were made by the same person many years ago

but also the care its maker took in carving each of the pegs

I presume meant to be a kangaroo

) and a somewhat younger looking woman in shorts and collared shirt relaxing in her striped lounge chair on the terrace above

28 rounds cut of heavy paper/card

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush and imagine they were madeWow. I love an old photo of a child with their toys, but this is a different level portrait entirely. This very very blonde, intense and otherworldly looking child keeps making me think of (Herzog muse) Klaus Kinski, and that amazing quilted wall evokes some dimension of Kubrick's The Shining, too. (Truly, I feel an electric current running through this photo.) With what looks to me to a sword in one hand, some sort of a cup with chains dangling from