Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese hand-shaped clip made to hold a handful

made to hold a handful of matches I think

I especially like him in silhouette

and 18th c

in various sizes

Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese hand-shaped clip made to hold a handfulTo my sensibilities a completely perfect snapshot, capturing a specific fleeting moment but also totally transcendent. And between those blacks and whites and grays, the geometries of doors and frames and horizontals beams, and the outwardly arching wings and inwardly arching praying hands, it really could not be formally and compositionally better. And both like a vision and a film still. Handwriting in what I believe is Portuguese on reverse, but I