James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing Hitoshi made of mother of pearl

made of mother of pearl and very finely hand-carved with different scenes on either side

Hang it from a ribbon in the office or studio both to be used as needed and enjoyed the rest of the time

who holds what appears to be some sort of lantern

I've never seen another set with pairs made by two unlike halves that come together to form one phrase and image (rather than pairs of two identical cards) --and what wonderful images and phrases they are

also as pictured

James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing Hitoshi made of mother of pearlJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015), a prolific and perpetually curious, inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings late in life of floating forms composed of faces in profile, which I find simultaneously playful and poignant. Here the double portraits assume the form of leaves, some detailed with veins that simultaneously read as whisps of hair framing each face, and all arranged in rows surrounded by shading in autumnal shades of burnt orange