Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting and with a head that

and with a head that also reminds me a bit of a seagull

The head was carved from three pieces (vertical layers) of wood

Photos tell the story--great paint

hat in hand

I just put a couple of scraps of wood under it

Lone Clam Digger in Knee Deep Water, Existential (And Zen) Feeling Paper Print Photo still life oil painting and with a head thatI believe this lone figure is a clam digger, the end of his rake concealed. I live much of the year on the water, and have occasionally watched a clam digger out in the muck at low tide on the coldest days of winter, which has struck me, as this photograph does, as about the most existential feeling thing in the world. But this photograph feels very Zen too, with the ripples on the surface of the water evoking raked sand in a Japanese garden, which