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

which won me for the Thinker-like posture and empathetic

and it is quite a dynamic piece--appearing as a solid

These I think would be great sitting on the same shelf as the chunky pottery vase I just listed

but perimeter stitching still holding tight

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