HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles scarab brooch and ten rectangular spatter painted

and ten rectangular spatter painted blocks matching the entry steps

with the caged ball like a precious stone at the center

Pure love for this gull--humble but completely satisfying

including some glue/rubber cement on the back side top corners  that shows through a bit

and perhaps something once extended from the mouth as well as the surface is rough there--but what a fantastic creature nonetheless

HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles scarab brooch and ten rectangular spatter paintedThis one, including for having raised some "Hands Off" signs lately (Hands Off Our Constiutution, Rule of Law, Bodies, etc.), feels to me especially poignant at the moment with the nibbling away to the lower edge seeming very much a metaphor for the persistent chipping away at democracy we are witnessing, another bite out every day. More broadly, quite a perfect embodiment distillation of the universal tension between declaration assertion warning and