Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing 1960s soviet union some roughness around the lip

some roughness around the lip and base

A very sweet one

constructed from a kit

which would have been used as a (rather cumbersome but wonderfully performative

Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing 1960s soviet union some roughness around the lipMaybe 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