Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting 3 3/8" tall x 1

3 3/8" tall x 1 1/4" wide x 7/8" deep

The head was carved from three pieces (vertical layers) of wood

though it appears to be unsigned

hat in hand

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

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting 3 3/8" tall x 1I 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