Observation Balloon on Fire, Poignant Annotated Photo of Photo, WWI Real Photo Postcard antique handmade toy Visible image: 6 1/2" x

Visible image: 6 1/2" x 4 3/8"

a bit tramp art-esque look of them as is

And what a lot of joy painting it clearly brought to RR Strang

and at the Donahue / Sosinski in 2002 and 2002

Observation Balloon on Fire, Poignant Annotated Photo of Photo, WWI Real Photo Postcard antique handmade toy Visible image: 6 1/2" xThe striking image here I believe is specifically of a German observation balloon being attacked by British planes during WWI poetically described in the handwritten annotation on this real photo postcard as "Observation balloon on fire." It is of course the dramatic, potent image itself that drew me to this, but I also find it quite evocative metaphorically (living in a surveillance state as we do) and looking closely one can see this is actually a