Minature Decorated Oar with Applied Photograph
This 19" long pyrography, also called poker work or wood burning, decorated oar has an applied photograph of a photographer on a frozen shore line. I photographed it for a lecture we are giving on 19th century photography. It is marked "Ocean Park" but no state is mentioned. The frozen ocean rules out several of the many possibilities. I think it is from Ocean Park, Maine where a Chautauqua community was founded in 1881. It has the feel of an amateur project to me.
Minature Decorated Oar with Applied Photograph
This 19" long pyrography, also called poker work or wood burning, decorated oar has an applied photograph of a photographer on a frozen shore line. I photographed it for a lecture we are giving on 19th century photography. It is marked "Ocean Park" but no state is mentioned. The frozen ocean rules out several of the many possibilities. I think it is from Ocean Park, Maine where a Chautauqua community was founded in 1881. It has the feel of an amateur project to me.