Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting and I assume made as

and I assume made as an apprentice piece or salesman sample as chests of this scale usually were

Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 5/8

though it appears to be unsigned

I just put a couple of scraps of wood under it

The head was carved from three pieces (vertical layers) of wood

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting and I assume made asI believe this lone figure is a clam digger, the end of his rake concealed. I live much of the year on the water, and have occasionally watched a clam digger out in the muck at low tide on the coldest days of winter, which has struck me, as this photograph does, as about the most existential feeling thing in the world. But this photograph feels very Zen too, with the ripples on the surface of the water evoking raked sand in a Japanese garden, which