Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo fine art painting trained under Academic history painters

trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and Jean Paul Laurens and exhibited at the salon of French artists

but perimeter stitching still holding tight

but those are very few and far between (and usually exorbitantly expensive)

evoking the divine and miraculous

as a handwritten note on the back

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo fine art painting trained under Academic history paintersI 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