Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting Hand-sculpted of very dark and

Hand-sculpted of very dark and gritty clay with very painterly glazing on eyes

I just put a couple of scraps of wood under it

hat in hand

The labyrinthine geometric designs on pottery pieces like this one have a relationship to their cosmology

though it appears to be unsigned

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting Hand-sculpted of very dark andI believe this lone figure is a clam digger, the end of his rake concealed. I live much of the year on the water, and have occasionally watched a clam digger out in the muck at low tide on the coldest days of winter, which has struck me, as this photograph does, as about the most existential feeling thing in the world. But this photograph feels very Zen too, with the ripples on the surface of the water evoking raked sand in a Japanese garden, which