Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 night sky with marvelous tiny fingers

with marvelous tiny fingers

Feels pretty holy to me

The drawer here is made of cigar box wood

a well known Inuit artist (both for carvings and for prints) from Puvirnituq/Povungnituk in northern Nunavik

making it perfect for storing little things

Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 night sky with marvelous tiny fingersThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points; in the case of this pastel, for example, the Aunt Mollie who drew it would have been born in 1838 (as indicated from the note