Antique Photograph of Collapsing House, with Witnesses kitchen spoons black and brown lacquer

black and brown lacquer

9 5/8" x 7 1/8"

The've got brass spinners at their centers

I really love the scalloped edges of the wrapped bark (a bit like the chip-carved edges of wood on a tramp art frame or box)

Antique Photograph of Collapsing House, with Witnesses kitchen spoons black and brown lacquerThe seller I purchased this from speculated this house collapse might be product of an earthquake; I obviously have no idea, though it looks very New England y to me, where damage from earthquakes is quite a rare event! I just find the buckled facade of the house a pretty captivating thing to look at (and also a bit as if Gordon Matta Clark had made a horizontal intervention) with this sort of haphazard row of posts attempting to the prop it up, and