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“I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.”
―(Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind)―
This mannequin's head, in a craft fair booth in a small Oregon down, seemed ageless to me as well.
Taken in Closson's which used to be in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Closson's had a really nice display of mannequins dressed in costumes made by students from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music which were used in some of their productions.
I will start getting these sprayed out this weekend. It is driving me crazy that I haven't had the time or money to get them done. Plus I love doing it, so even if it only for a few hours, I am going to work on a couple.
Beggars and Kings
In the evening
all the hours that weren't used
are emptied out
and the beggars are waiting to gather them up
to open them
to find the sun in each one
and teach it its beggar's name
and sing to it It is well
through the night
but each of us
has his own kingdom of pains
and has not yet found them all
and is sailing in search of them day and night
infallible undisputed unresting
filled with a dumb use
and its time
like a finger in a world without hands
-- W. S. Merwin