Encased Forever (with Love), Mid 19th Century Ambrotype of Pink Cheeked Man in Marvelous Leatherwork Frame lead shot with a hanging loop at

with a hanging loop at top center

I find this image kind of amazing

and then this lovely whisper of long stalk in hand

most letters several times over written in different colors of crayon

Encased Forever (with Love), Mid 19th Century Ambrotype of Pink Cheeked Man in Marvelous Leatherwork Frame lead shot with a hanging loop at(Photos do no justice, this is all about presence, and all those layered bits of leather are much more beautiful in hand.) Anyway I had to live with this special one for a while; I had a deep, very visceral response to it when first I saw it, and still do as much a thing to feel as to look at it. (And smell that leather, too!) Our pink cheeked fellow is forever enclosed here (I want to say encrusted, too), with leather bits overlapping the cased