Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing sculptural barn hook with a bit of pencil

with a bit of pencil writing on the 3 of clubs

In this case the horses may have only been trained to do three movements

A little crazing to the glaze

and the pleasure of mixing and matching the pieces

so I know it was produced by s explained on the box text

Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing sculptural barn hook with a bit of pencilMaybe 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