ABOUT THIS LISTING This listing is for an original miniature diorama box scene painted with professional-grade watercolors on 100% cotton Arches watercolor paper and assembled using archival-quality glue. The diorama box is made of carboard, covered with textured paper, and then painted a dark navy using velvety acryla gouache paint. With the lid closed, the box measures roughly 3.75 x 2.75 x 1.25 inches. This is not a print, but a one-of-a-kind original painted papercraft creation.
TEXT (handwritten inside the lid of the box using watercolor paint and a detail brush): "'Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. 'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'" (Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol")
BRYANA SAYS For me, Marley's outburst is a kind of treasure I want to own—a talisman to ward off the insidious but ever-present suggestion that wealth and its acquisition are valuable in their own right or are somehow out-of-bounds when it comes to the jurisdiction of morality. Trampling our fellow humans in a rush to fill our pockets is every bit as reprehensible as trampling them under any other circumstances, Dickens goes on reminding us 182 years after A Christmas Carol was first published. And somehow, somehow it's a message we URGENTLY need.
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