Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot to me it speaks all

to me it speaks all about absence and also anticipation--of the specific pipe that once lay there (and was dumped into the bowl) and of the one it now awaits

I've had an eye out for portable sun dials

Toward the bottom of the short sides of the bottle Chinese characters are carved

I've seen a few larger folk art pull toys (primarily dogs) made in this articulated manner

looking as if out in the middle of nowhere

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot to me it speaks allI found this photograph along with a photograph on a blown out building interior taken in Rheims, France during WW1 just after a German bombing listed last week I believe this, like that, is the work of a French photojournalist, and that this is of the same decade. For me there is something very potent about the spare, very essentialist feeling construction of a boxing ring like this, all the more so for being empty, and empty here during wartime I