Original Mixed Media Painting on Antique Photo Postcard (c. 1907)
Acrylics on Vintage Postcard | 3.5 x 5.5 inches | Signed & Dated | 2025

In this unusual little love letter from the uncanny side of nostalgia, a prim child from a long-forgotten French postcard smiles sweetly while clutching a blue fish. But the scene is anything but ordinary—his world is now blooming with anatomical hearts, candy swirls, floating eyeballs, and aggressively cheerful tulips. It’s as if someone cracked open the pastel mind of a Victorian Valentine and let all the strange dreams spill out.

Painted directly onto an original early 1900s postcard (with postmark stamp and message intact on the back), this piece layers memory, whimsy, and a touch of unsettling affection. It’s romantic, but make it weird. Like a dream of love filtered through candy wrappers and antique lace.

A perfect gift for the offbeat valentine in your life—or the collector who knows that love is rarely just sweet.

🎨 Acrylic on antique paper postcard
💌 Postmarked & messaged, around 1907 (French)
🖋 Signed “Jo Potocki 2025, 3amGallery.com”
📏 Approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches (standard postcard size)
🎁 Ships safely packaged in protective archival sleeve

This is a small-format, intimate piece meant to be held, closely viewed, and collected. It cannot be reproduced.

Larger original folk art paintings are also available in my shop.

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