Portraits of rabbis blessing basketballs. Llamas with fruit on their heads. Foreheads — just foreheads — painted alongside strange, thoughtful objects. Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of Jonathan Blum.
For the 101st dinner in December 2017, I joined the Brooklyn-based artist for a meal at Rasika in Washington, D.C. We talked sales hustles, spiritual detours, and how a forehead sketch in a Boston zine set off a decades-long career in delightfully odd art.