HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles scarab brooch and perhaps something once extended

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

but rather just decided to claim your spot in bed--but nestled so cozily in under the covers

Published by The Studio Publications

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

Pure love for this gull--humble but completely satisfying

HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles scarab brooch and perhaps something once extendedThis 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