View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere old wooden t-square with the slightly irregular spacing

with the slightly irregular spacing and right justification lending a sense of syncopation to the words themselves (as if Ringo Starr were being implied

Camden Town

I spotted this watercolor high on the wall at an antique shop in Manchester

deeply hand-carved letters

and with long flat tale as a handle

View from Stage, Antique Cyanotype Photo of Theatre Interior with Stars and Stripes Everywhere old wooden t-square with the slightly irregular spacingQuite an unusual one, a late 19th very early 20th c. cyanotype, which I know came out of a Los Angeles estate. I've recently been looking at old photographs of empty spaces sets like a rare photobooth photo absent a person, which I really coveted and this feels akin to me; a view from the stage of an empty theatre. All about stage setting, and anticipation, and absence, too. With these elaborately draped stars and stripes banners everywhere, and