No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object antique American photo The house on the hill

The house on the hill in the distance

a steam liner with the words "the Love Boat" on the side

it seems perhaps a portrait of the dynamics of a relationship

with perfectly rounded sides and a deep suck inward at the center

a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art related to fraktur

No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object antique American photo The house on the hillI have no idea what this was once attached to; it doesn't seem deep enough to have been a handle or pull perhaps it was a salesman sample of sort, number 22 of who knows how many? Whatever the case, it's a perfect found object to me, with the No (as in No. 22) next to the RELIEF reading as No Relief which of course often seems to be the case these days on numerous sorts of levels! (At the same time one might read it Relief in its 22nd form, and as I