Antique Relief Carved Panel with Portrait in Profile man with tools it certainly makes me smile

it certainly makes me smile every time I look at it

or how it came to have barnacles all over it

I'm not at all a photography expert

and I am expert on very little

but veering toward pure abstraction

Antique Relief Carved Panel with Portrait in Profile man with tools it certainly makes me smileI found this in Vermont but believe its origins are European, and my guess would be French, perhaps portraying an explorer of distant lands, with what I take for mountains or the edges of landmasses at the corners. Or, maybe, in his finery, he's no less than a king, ruling lands near and far. Whatever the case, I think the panel is quite wonderfully carved, and quite a character he is with that long mane and mustache and chin up profile making me