Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing futuristic drawing Johnson Creek

Johnson Creek

What a face on this fabulous little folk art cat

they also remind me a bit of Louise Bourgeois spiders

and it closes tight and flush

Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing futuristic drawing Johnson CreekThis breaks my heart, but I love it so much and really in significant part for exactly that reason. In the text at the bottom, its maker misspelled "thee" as "the", but I've figured out it reads: I can not give the(e) up, with all thy faults I love the(e) still." And on the reverse: "No one to love." And then this poor fellow, flowers in hand, standing at the doorstep of the one he loves, who does not seem especially eager to open the door and let him