Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing 1960s soviet union Signed (incised) on the bottom

Signed (incised) on the bottom of his feet John M

with enough slots to accommodate a fair bit of mail

This seems to be a pretty rare one

I don't know what it is (maybe a mold

Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing 1960s soviet union Signed (incised) on the bottomMaybe 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