Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique embroidery He matched his cross displays

He matched his cross displays with as many—if not more—hand-painted admonitions and apocalyptic warnings such as “Hell is Hot” and “Sinners Burn in Hell

as if it has been walking around for the past 150 years or so

a solid black shadow version of itself

I've always got an eye out for antique cut paper hearts and the like

though I'd be inclined to put it on a pedestal

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique embroidery He matched his cross displaysWow. 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