HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles claw The inly blue glazed interior

The inly blue glazed interior adds a subtle glow to the matte-ish black exterior

and a wonderful balance of stately elegance and folky charm

I believe the Condense Factory captured here on fire was in Tillsonburg

9 1/8" x 7" x 1 1/2"

Signed in pencil on the back: painted by M

HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles claw The inly blue glazed interiorThis one, including for having raised some "Hands Off" signs lately (Hands Off Our Constiutution, Rule of Law, Bodies, etc.), feels to me especially poignant at the moment with the nibbling away to the lower edge seeming very much a metaphor for the persistent chipping away at democracy we are witnessing, another bite out every day. More broadly, quite a perfect embodiment distillation of the universal tension between declaration assertion warning and