Homemade Antique Stereoview, Seated Woman in Hat in Landscape handmade scrap book edited by Ron Padgett

edited by Ron Padgett

and typically depicted as a red robed bearded man

The drawing is in great shape

especially one on wheels

which adds another layer--i

Homemade Antique Stereoview, Seated Woman in Hat in Landscape handmade scrap book edited by Ron PadgettI just love this image of young woman in fancy hat perched on what looks like a tree stump, hands folded primly on her knee and gazing off into space looking quite contemplative. There seems to me a certain absurdity to it all out in the middle of nowhere posing for a serious portrait but I also find a certain poignancy to it, as if a portrait of a woman stuck, looking in one direction while there is a whole world unfolding in the other (at upper