Evocative 1877 Plaster Portrait Mold of Bearded Gentleman barrel shaped box with Yantra at center (the

with Yantra at center (the circle inside of triangle inside of circle)

and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are all the better felt in the negative

The textile itself measures 15

Not so easy to photograph

including some ancient Chancay Peruvian woven pieces

Evocative 1877 Plaster Portrait Mold of Bearded Gentleman barrel shaped box with Yantra at center (theI think I'd be way less interested in the cast plaster portraits created from this than I am in the mold itself, which I find super evocative and a bit haunting too, with all of its patina now making it feel a bit like a momento mori. I don't know who this man was, but there is a date of 1877 carved into the back. Around the perimeter is an old iron wire holding it together one assumes added at the time it cracked along his shoulder with a beautiful