Curiously Posed Woman with Parasol and Raised Hand, Antique RPPC caricature portrait the photographer and film superior

the photographer and film superior and mermaid with the whole complicated apparatus of our mechanics

that long spiral out front is like the rolled tongue of a butterfly

A humble little carving in many senses

or modernist

Curiously Posed Woman with Parasol and Raised Hand, Antique RPPC caricature portrait the photographer and film superiorIt took me quite a while to figure out what was going on in this portrait, which is part of why I like it! At first I thought it was some sort of rod she holds, pointing off to the left but I finally realized it is the handle of a parasol, tipped 90 degrees to its side. (Adding the confusion is what I presume is the rolled cuff of the right sleeve, which looks almost like a brace attached to her arm.) And then this curious gesture she makes with her