A Summer Like No Other

In this work, Jones has distilled a small library onto a single canvas. What was once shelves full of books on American history has been reimagined as a concentrated, abstract portrait of American history. By deconstructing the books’ material, the artist implores us to uncover the subtle, almost invisible ways in which different histories are connected—and, perhaps more importantly, how they connect us. In Jones’s own words, “To what extent do [different] forms of atrocity, when seen only in isolation, prevent us from understanding how our struggles against them are interconnected?” – Mycroft Zimmerman