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What Do You Call It

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Girl with platinum curls holding an ornate gold frame around her head, a ghostly hand and extra eyes melted into one side of her freckled face dripping rose colored wax, tattooed arms, silver nails, white collar and silver bow against teal. Signed Magpie.

A girl with platinum curls holds a heavy carved gold frame up around her own head like a portrait of herself. Across one side of her face a second set of eyes and the ghost of a hand seem to have melted into her skin, dripping rose colored wax down her freckled cheek. Tattooed arms, silver nails, a crisp white collar and a crumpled silver bow, all against deep teal. It is glamorous and wrong in equal parts, and she knows you are looking. The poem behind her asks what you call it when your pleasing performance was never sweetness, when you gave everyone a shoulder, a voice of guidance, a permission slip to be messy, and asked for nothing in return. The frame is the performance. The hand is what it cost.

Made from a poem.

What it costs us, and what most people pay
WhichCosts usMost people pay
poster, 10x10 inches$10.35$22.22
poster, 12x12 inches$12.33$24.42
poster, 16x16 inches$13.53$30.03
poster, 18x18 inches$14.57$33.33
poster, 20x20 inches$16.65$40.04
poster, 24x24 inches$21.09$44.44
the file, to print yourself$0.00$11.11

Pay what you can, from the cost up, in the jewelry box. Or buy the print on Etsy, the file on Etsy.

Closer view of the girl's face inside the gold frame, platinum curls, the melted hand and dripping rose wax across one cheek.
The girl in the gold frame print hung on a silver grey textured wall above a row of four ornate antique silver chairs.
Close up detail of green eyes and the ghost of a hand fused into a freckled cheek, rose colored drips running down beside glossy lips.
The girl in the gold frame print hung on a pale blue silk wall with gilt trim above a blue French armchair.
Close up of the lower right corner: a tattooed hand with silver nails gripping the carved gold frame with the Magpie signature in green script.
The girl in the gold frame print hung on a lavender grey paneled wall beside a cream wingback chair and a gold floor lamp.
Both What Do You Call It prints hung side by side in a tall pale arched room above a cream antique settee.

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