Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women In part because I love

In part because I love them deeply

circa 1930s-40s

I've found just a few other Odd Fellows hooked rugs from the late 19th and early 20th century

dipped in white slip and then hand-painted--ivery much n the manner of the work of famous father and son Mexican folk artists Aurelio and Francisco Flores from Izúcar de Matamoros

-- and multiple post marks

Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women In part because I loveNot for the feint of heart, but quite a striking and potent as well as unusual cut paper silhouette, I'd say. Which, as I look at it, seems all to hinge on this woman standing before the beheaded figure I'd like to imagine it is she who has finally gotten justice. (Being strongly averse to capital punishment, myself, I'll read that justice as metaphorical.) Hard to look at a silhouetted scene like this without thinking of the work of Kara Walker now,