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What Do You Call It

What Do You Call It · 4:3

Black and white portrait of a freckled girl with wild dark hair and a striped ribbon resting her face in her hands, a small tear under one eye, against a softly colored room of doll posters and a pink plush toy. Signed Magpie.

A freckled girl drawn in soft black and white rests her face in both hands and stares straight out, hair wild and windblown, a striped ribbon knotted into it, one tiny tear under her eye. She is the only thing without color. Behind her the room is faded candy tones: doll posters, a pink plush toy, a gilt frame. It reads like someone who has stepped half out of her own picture. The poem behind her asks 'how do you say I was hiding from myself because I needed to earn my right to need,' and the grey is the hiding.

Made from a poem.

What it costs us, and what most people pay
WhichCosts usMost people pay
poster, 11x9 inches$10.35$22.22
poster, 14x11 inches$12.33$24.42
poster, 16x12 inches$13.53$30.03
poster, 20x16 inches$14.57$33.33
poster, 24x18 inches$16.65$40.04
poster, 32x24 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 freckled face resting in her hands, wide eyes looking straight out, wild hair and a striped ribbon.
The black and white girl print hung on a mauve wall above a pink desk with gold legs, a pink stool and a vase of pink flowers.
Close up detail of wide eyes, freckles across the nose, a tiny tear under one eye and full lips in soft black and white.
The black and white girl print hung on a pale wall above two blush cane armchairs and a small white tea table with lilacs.
Close up of the lower right: a knitted sleeve in black and white against the faded colored wall with the faint Magpie signature.
The black and white girl print hung on a sage green wall above a bed with a rattan flower headboard and white linen.
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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