On the Dark Side of the Meadow, Evocative Earlyish 20th Century Snapshot painted toy this is just my sort

this is just my sort of slate--much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around

but also pretty fun to roll or throw around

This is one of two marvelously naive mid 20th century ex voto retablos I purchased from a seller in California

2nd half 19th century American

On the Dark Side of the Meadow, Evocative Earlyish 20th Century Snapshot painted toy this is just my sortA glitch in the development process I presume, but feels almost as if this woman were standing out in her meadow as a solar eclipse was unfolding, about to be swallowed up in darkness. Certainly it also feels like something of a interior portrait, a darkening mood, the grass much greener over there. But yet, surrounded by wildflowers, perhaps the clouds are in fact lifting and the sunlight about to fall on her shoulders. I really like the larger than