Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms graphic pattern painted on a plywood panel

painted on a plywood panel

The reside around the edge of the porcelain scrapes off pretty easily should one want to clean this up a bit

and I'd guess they are meant to represent the twins of Gemini

with the mirror-like surface of the daguerreotype making images like this all the more so

It weighs pretty much exactly a pound so perhaps was made as a whimsical weight

Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms graphic pattern painted on a plywood panelOne of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)