HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles scarab brooch with the caged ball like

with the caged ball like a precious stone at the center

1 7/8" t x 1" d

plus the "J" and "N" missing entirely

and ten rectangular spatter painted blocks matching the entry steps

later to become A

HANDS OFF, Metaphorical Feeling Hand-Painted Sign on Cardboard with Encroaching Nibbles scarab brooch with the caged ball likeThis one, including for having raised some "Hands Off" signs lately (Hands Off Our Constiutution, Rule of Law, Bodies, etc.), feels to me especially poignant at the moment with the nibbling away to the lower edge seeming very much a metaphor for the persistent chipping away at democracy we are witnessing, another bite out every day. More broadly, quite a perfect embodiment distillation of the universal tension between declaration assertion warning and