HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles claw a pretty special one I

a pretty special one I think

9 1/8" x 7" x 1 1/2"

And if my name were Deidamia Swallow

but I was thinking they'd be pretty great for marking a birthday--or two--in this case with only five years between

Signed in pencil on the back: painted by M

HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles claw a pretty special one IThis 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