Curious and Wonderful 1970s Signed Canadian Enamelware Dish forest painting right down to those beautifully

right down to those beautifully rounded fingers

with that mason placing his own mark at the center of the letters

I especially like the very long blades of his rotating arms

which I would hand vertically on the wall from one nail at the top

copyrighted 1851

Curious and Wonderful 1970s Signed Canadian Enamelware Dish forest painting right down to those beautifullyThis smallish handmade enamelware, dated 1979 and signed "Eren" Canada on the back, was surely based on an image of Native Canadian kayaker in parka and seal skin kayak with fishing spear held overhead. But what a wonderfully naive sort of treatment, with the figure looking part ghost, part Michelin man, and, with perfect "o" of an open mouth, perhaps expressing surprise, or else fierce determination. For me it winds up feeling rather transcendent and