A pierced hunting scene runs the full width of both leaves — a buck and a doe on one side, turkeys, ground birds, a grazing fawn, a hog and ducks on the wing on the other, all cut through the plate among mossy trees and grass. A name is lettered through the arched panel above it, and a row of raised diamond studs crosses the solid panel below. Black, with warm timber boarding set behind the cut scene.
Antler tines run up into the branches above them, grass climbs into a hoof, and the tangle that looks like undergrowth is holding the picture together — the middle band comes out of a single plate, so no silhouette in it is free to float. Timber boarding behind the cut is what makes it read at distance: the shapes land as dark on warm rather than dark on whatever happens to be up the drive.
It suits a place that is about what is on the land: a camp, a hunting lease, acreage where the approach ought to announce it. The Mayeaux Gate sets out to disappear into a fence line, and this one is a picture hung across the drive.
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