African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse brass paperclip each with two plastic cups

each with two plastic cups that stack one on top of the other under their red exterior lids

Each one is unique and they stack snugly inside their fantastically detailed box— depicting a woman in a dazzling interior

The more time I spend with this hand carved granite sculpture

singular form from certain angles

African Folk Art Painting with Handwritten Story on Reverse brass paperclip each with two plastic cupsThis African folk art painting poses a bit of a mystery. It is emblematic of paintings from Zimbabwe and Cameroon, which similarly feature numerous figures and animals, engaged in various activities, rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and, like this one, painted on panel as well as its surrounding frame. But what makes this one particularly intriguing is that pasted to the back of the painting and written in pencil in a childlike hand,