Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing sculptural barn hook and their backsides provide translation

and their backsides provide translation and other practical (and also poetic) information

with some more saturated brish stokes above the apple

) and just right as a pedestal

A little crazing to the glaze

with a bit of pencil writing on the 3 of clubs

Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing sculptural barn hook and their backsides provide translationMaybe done in art class, or maybe under the influence of hallucinogens, or maybe both who knows?! Pretty cool I think whatever the case, and the Joe D who signed it was certainly invested in it. To my eye the finely drawn red ink work has a nice relationship to Fraktur drawings, and 19th c. Spencerian calligraphic drawings, too, and the black on gold patterned corners have an Islamic feel. And of course it reads like a mandala. Maybe Joe D was really