James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform Notre Dame is burning

Notre Dame is burning

On the sides are loops

the exaggerated hands with individuated fingers

or other visible flaws on the porcelain

pleasuring kids and adults alike

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform Notre Dame is burningFrom 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