13 unique works, varying dimensions
For the past year or more, I've been focused on two bodies of work: the Insights and Indexes series. They are sets of interrelated pieces that inform each other and operate both individually and as one larger work. Each piece is a painstaking construction of layered high-resolution imagery. They're labor intensive works. Many steps are taken and then taken again; many choices are made only by trial and error. A third series, Puzzles, also continues—in a bit less linear manner.
There is a lot of earlier work, most of it not featured here. Inquire for more details.
(above: The Seduction Of Anomie, detail)
(Is art escape, prayers to a patron saint of nothing?
Can geometry be religion; colors gods?)
6-color inkjet, variable substrates and dimensions
Mick Jones With Avocado Toast
mixed media on cardboard, walnut artist frame
In earlier pieces, I often worked with letterforms and language, which sometimes operated with meaning and sometimes did not. We are strongly programmed to regard black designs (which happen to be letters) on a white background as NOT just shapes and negative spaces—yet it is what they are—as abstract, symbolic, empty or magical as we wish them to become.
#1003-1021-20 Hog/J
Odd Collages (2), Racks, Carts, Fences
Self-portrait as Félicien Rops
(includes fragment by François-Eugene Burney, 1887)
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