Having fun isn’t hard when you find the Worcester Antiquarian Society’s archive of Puritan funerary art
There’s something so quaint & gravely humorous about the primitivism of the depictions, as the rock is too brittle to carve elegantly, so you get the Hamburger Helper mascot saying YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
Funerary art is the first American Folk Art-- iconography being suspect for idolatry, the Puritans had to invent their own aesthetic language, & this was always done by amateurs who worked in other trades. It's the origin of AMERICAN PRIMITIVISM.
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