Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing hindu carving )The samples themselves are quite

)The samples themselves are quite accomplished and widely varied

with a beautiful intimacy and ethereal quality

and I expected it to be Asian

which has not lead me anywhere

with a bit of spotted lightening to one section of the perimeter velvet

Joe D's 1970 Ink and Gold Pen Mandala Drawing hindu carving )The samples themselves are quiteMaybe 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