Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese hand-shaped clip and 18th c

and 18th c

with some light scratches to their surfaces here and there

and super folky too

made to hold a handful of matches I think

and especially about how the (very) young men at the far end

Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese hand-shaped clip and 18th cTo my sensibilities a completely perfect snapshot, capturing a specific fleeting moment but also totally transcendent. And between those blacks and whites and grays, the geometries of doors and frames and horizontals beams, and the outwardly arching wings and inwardly arching praying hands, it really could not be formally and compositionally better. And both like a vision and a film still. Handwriting in what I believe is Portuguese on reverse, but I