Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby antique wooden posts It is signed LOHMAN on

It is signed LOHMAN on the right side of the back side

The large scale of the drawing lends each of the figures a substantial presence and sense of being specific individuals

it's an announcement of independence and singularity and an embrace of solitude

with a mix of thin and thicker blue stripes

plenty of paint loss and separation of halves

Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby antique wooden posts It is signed LOHMAN onSuch a strange one! This is an foil wrapped, uncased 19th c. ruby ambrotype which, over time, has been transformed in what I find a quite evocative and rather otherworldly way, as if revealing this child's inner light (or its being consumed from within by a pear shaped ectoplasmic blob!) I especially love how the hand at left seems to grip and press into the side of the glowing form. There is no backing aside from a taped perimeter and the foil wrap,