James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform the exaggerated hands with individuated

the exaggerated hands with individuated fingers

where this couple with backs turned to one another  seem as if they were destined for perching on either side of this table

Notre Dame is burning

or other visible flaws on the porcelain

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform the exaggerated hands with individuatedFrom 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 including tattooed ear and fanstastic star like wrinkles around the eye playfully rendered in black ink dots. Often recycling materials in his work, this one makes use of of a letter to Henry Fogel, Director of the Chicago Symphony, praising the