View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere hats The elastic strap is sewn

The elastic strap is sewn down in a couple of spots

but also of persistent tendencies

each quite singular but showing their maker's sustained commitment to drawing lovely ladies in radiant colors with distinctive features

both in America and abroad

and so here it is on own

View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere hats The elastic strap is sewnQuite an unusual one, a late 19th very early 20th c. cyanotype, which I know came out of a Los Angeles estate. I've recently been looking at old photographs of empty spaces sets like a rare photobooth photo absent a person, which I really coveted and this feels akin to me; a view from the stage of an empty theatre. All about stage setting, and anticipation, and absence, too. With these elaborately draped stars and stripes banners everywhere, and