James Bone Cutout Self-Portrait in Profile, 1991 antique lidded boxes tiny images of the cards

tiny images of the cards repeated in the corners

The tops on the peppers

There's such a wealth out there of amazing Japanese Netsuke--finely carved miniature sculptures that traditionally functioned as sliding beads or toggles securing the cord attaching a sagemono

Another sweet handmade wooden animal to add the the menagerie

James Bone Cutout Self-Portrait in Profile, 1991 antique lidded boxes tiny images of the cardsFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), this is one of two wonderful 1991 cutout silhouette self portraits, with the features playfully rendered in black ink dots and line. Often recycling materials in his work, this one makes use of page 17 of an essay invoking Freud, Philp Rieff, and contemporary cultures annihilation of intellectual diversity! What I know about James