Perfect Pear: 19th C. Theorem Watercolor on Paper \to hang or filled with a bloom

or filled with a bloom

but everything seems in excellent working order--a really terrific little kit inside a beautiful box

These two wonderful drinking bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador

an endless loop of falls from grace

I keep finding them--but I think it is rather that they are a magnet for me

Perfect Pear: 19th C. Theorem Watercolor on Paper \to hang or filled with a bloomThere are so many sorts of things I've fallen more and more in love with over time, theorem paintings very much one of them. I really love the super folky early theorems on velvet, but a crisp watercolor theorem on paper like this one satisfies in a whole different way; what a jewel like thing this ripening pear on its stem is, with a few rich green leaves setting it off just perfectly. So contemporary feeling, too; a perfectly resolved, very lovely