http://www.dennismichaeljones.space/new-gallery-3 daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1476804788030-N6FSE96ZEZOT7Z17WKWK/just+the+tip+at+CCS.jpg Sometimes it's just the tip of the iceberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1476804788030-N6FSE96ZEZOT7Z17WKWK/just+the+tip+at+CCS.jpg Sometimes it's just the tip of the iceberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1476804823699-BUS0HV6ESICCU5V7N1DM/just+the+tip+at+CCS+4.jpg Sometimes it's just the tip of the iceberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1476804841852-ETUIX6MN3ZDHCW7NBTVU/just+the+tip+at+CCS+5.jpg Sometimes it's just the tip of the iceberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1476804865111-V8SWKX8WSOEHG61O8L6Q/just+the+tip+at.jpg Sometimes it's just the tip of the iceberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1492449425704-WYNL1B4K8NXGEJLFR91W/_MG_3698.JPG Sometimes it's just the tip of the iceberg Each drawing in this series is hand made, using a charcoal pencil and a lettering template and the occasional eraser, each drawing is 11"x14" on 2 ply Bristol paper. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/fc683da1-6d58-4e90-a888-02276f14e314/20241105_154110+copy.jpg Rare and Precious Things - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/b042ab63-afea-4ead-9fc0-27c6dde4ebaf/20241003_120610+copy.jpg Rare and Precious Things - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.dennismichaeljones.space/new-minority daily 0.75 2026-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1664223283064-4Z2GMBKIKAGHZAH7PL45/20220926_084336+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - never a thought 4”x 5”, ball point pen, sharpie, on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1664223283064-4Z2GMBKIKAGHZAH7PL45/20220926_084336+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - never a thought 4”x 5”, ball point pen, sharpie, on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1664223297078-AGQVQPHR4QY3VLYWXDO0/20220926_160324+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - never a thought 58”x 72”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. There may once have been a flicker of independent thought behind their eyes, but whatever spark they possessed has long since guttered out. Now they move as hollow vessels, their own voices erased until they can do nothing but echo the words of the one who leads them. Submission has hollowed them from within. Bereft of vision, curiosity, or imagination, their minds have grown numb through disuse, stagnant as swamp water. They remain imprisoned in a reclusive past, clinging to a promise whispered to them so often it has become indistinguishable from memory: that the old ways will save them, that tomorrow belongs to yesterday, that all will be made right if only they refuse to change. Beyond the borders of their shrinking world, history presses forward without them, leaving them stranded among the ruins of their own certainty. Reason has become an enemy. Facts are dismissed as temptations. Science is treated as a profane intrusion upon beliefs they hold with ritual devotion. In its place they surrender themselves to the comfort of absolute answers, embracing scripture not as a source of reflection but as an unyielding decree. Their white evangelical Christian leaders dispense literal interpretations of sacred passages as though they were antidotes to doubt, wrapping every fear and contradiction in the soothing shroud of false certainty. And so, the emptiness within them deepens, until it becomes impossible to tell whether they still possess minds of their own—or whether something else has taken up residence in the silence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660416726059-B9KTYHBH1PUUYDMQOP24/20220811_160714+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - sometimes it's a bad idea to walk around without your head 72”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. I encourage you to look upon the fractured condition of the figures and the landscape they inhabit in these paintings not merely as a circumstance, but as a living metaphor—a parable of a deeper darkness that has taken root within the soul of a nation. They stand as symbols of a willful blindness, a surrender of thought and conscience that has allowed a fearful and unreflective few to seize influence over the many. Their actions echo like a storm unleashed upon the pillars of democracy, the sanctity of the natural world, and the fragile threads of compassion and civility that bind a society together. They have become captives of a hollow creed, one that feeds upon resentment, ignorance, and the illusion of grievance. Beneath its banners lies an insatiable hunger: a desire to possess, to dominate, to command every corner of public life for the benefit of the powerful and the privileged. Yet the deepest sorrow of this corruption is that many who carry its torch do not see the chains that hold them. They have been taught to mistake their captivity for liberation, their anger for strength, and their wounds for proof of a righteousness that was never truly theirs. They have been led to believe themselves dispossessed, even as they inherit the privileges of a hierarchy that promises them superiority and delivers them only isolation. The myth of entitlement—the ancient illusion that one’s worth is measured by another’s exclusion—has become a mirror in which they see not their own captivity, but an imagined greatness slipping away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660139007621-N3ZLAL97ZHTAIJHIRCZE/20220810_093719+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - willful and thoughtless 4.72”x 3.75”, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663688543363-4B91V4Z1G1X2RK6JPPZR/20220920_113555+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - swamp 4.5”x 4.75”, ball point pen, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663698097259-RLGKO17PNVV9LAOAIBQP/20220920_141124+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - swamp 64”x 62”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. The swamp has always been a place where the boundaries between beauty and decay blur—a realm where nature, left untended, becomes a labyrinth of tangled growth and suffocating shadow. It is a world of dense thickets and twisted roots, where vegetation rises in chaotic abundance, weaving a wall so impenetrable that sunlight itself seems unwelcome. The few rays that manage to break through arrive weakened and fractured, unable to cleanse the darkness below. Here, the air hangs heavy, the waters lie still and black, and beneath their glassy surface linger secrets best left undisturbed. In the depths of the swamp, unseen things stir. Beneath the stagnant waters and among the choking reeds, creatures adapted to the gloom move silently—slithering through the mud, crawling across decaying earth, and feeding upon what has been left to rot. They are inhabitants of a world where corruption is not an intrusion but an ecosystem, where decay is not an accident but the very condition that sustains life. The swamp does not merely conceal its inhabitants; it protects them, offering shelter to those who thrive in darkness and find advantage in obscurity. And then there is the smell—the unmistakable breath of the swamp itself. It rises from the soil and the water, from fallen leaves and forgotten things, from all that has been abandoned to time. It is the odor of stagnation, of rot and decomposition, of promises left to wither and truths left buried beneath layers of neglect. The swamp announces its presence not through grandeur, but through the slow, relentless persistence of decay. Such a landscape serves as a powerful metaphor for an age marked by deception, secrecy, corruption, and the erosion of public trust. Like the swamp, systems built upon concealment become places where unhealthy growth flourishes—where shadows provide cover, where accountability is treated as a threat, and where those who benefit from disorder defend the very conditions that sustain them. The mire becomes a refuge for those who mistake darkness for safety and confusion for strength. And so, the swamp calls its inhabitants home once more. Not a place of renewal or transformation, but a familiar refuge for those unwilling to confront the light beyond its borders. There, among the tangled roots and poisoned waters, they find comfort in the very decay that others seek to escape—a kingdom of shadows where the careless, the indifferent, and the complicit may settle in, convinced that the darkness around them is not a warning, but a shelter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660846718089-BT4OLEWVF0EC13EJ9Q3Q/20220818_141203+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - they deserve each other 5.25”x 4”, acrylic, sharpie, on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661269903453-D56ZOBAZJZDGSBYXTRAJ/20220822_125307+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - (swamp lovers) they deserve each other 72”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. Feeling adrift, rejected, and persecuted, they wandered alone, each searching for a community of like-minded white outsiders to call their own. He longed for a woman who would obey him without question; she longed for a man who would demand nothing less. They clung to the certainty that they had been chosen, convinced that God Himself had entrusted them with a sacred mission. Between them, they could recite whole passages of the Old Testament from memory, each verse hardening their conviction and silencing every doubt. Blindly they crossed a leaching, chemical-saturated wasteland where neither trees nor grass had survived. The earth seemed flayed open, its poisoned soil weeping through cracked ground. Bleached stumps jutted from the landscape like broken teeth, while rotting logs lay half-buried as though they had sunk there trying to escape. Severed heads stared from the mire with empty eyes, their slack expressions worn smooth by wind and rain until they seemed less like corpses than warnings no one had heeded. Yet the land did not repel them. It seemed to recognize them, to open itself before them, as though the decay surrounding them were merely the outward expression of the darkness they carried within. Their shared devotion to God, self-imposed isolation, racist convictions, and consuming hatred of contemporary society—with its laws and institutions they believed favored people of color over white people—drew them steadily toward one another. Beneath it all lay the same desperate hunger: to belong, to become part of something larger than themselves. The wasteland, vast and indifferent, yielded them to each other at last. Their paths converged. They found one another, and they embraced, while behind them the poisoned earth settled into silence, as if it had been waiting for this union all along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660426646517-5B8HZGNCI1JE4N1AZJD7/20220808_113049+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - helplessly headless 72”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. The hopelessly headless wander the world in search of direction, purpose, and acceptance. Believing they have found those things in a powerful and charismatic figure who reflects—and amplifies—their resentment and prejudice, they embrace his message as their own. Many fail to recognize that they are being manipulated to advance his personal ambitions. Their anger is redirected toward those with the least power: immigrants, people of color, women, LGBTQ people, and older adults—groups they are encouraged to believe have taken opportunities that rightfully belonged to them. To sustain the illusion of overwhelming public support, he depends on a large and devoted following, continually recruiting new adherents by stoking fear, resentment, and hostility toward these vulnerable communities. In doing so, he exploits grievance for personal gain, while obscuring the fact that such actions undermine the very democratic principles of equality, pluralism, and the rule of law that they claim to defend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659734765024-44WR2XE1XHYOM152VAAV/20220805_171908+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - headless dace 5.25”x 4.25”, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659359885406-USNKBAZSA1HI66DR06UD/20220801_090942+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - sewer 4”x 3.5”, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659370134997-M98TTE4TYKTMFN8F10VK/20220801_115915+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - sewer 60”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. The sewer system is our unseen, underground network for collecting and disposing of waste. It is where unwanted, abandoned, and often hazardous debris from the world above accumulates before being carried through a vast maze of concrete tunnels. While this infrastructure is essential to modern society, it also reflects a troubling pattern of neglect. Because our waste disappears from view, it becomes easy to discard it without thought or accountability, even though much of it ultimately finds its way into our streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. The irony is striking. We invest tremendous ingenuity, engineering, and planning into building sophisticated sewer systems, yet we are often careless about what we allow to flow through them, contaminating the very waterways that provide our drinking water and sustain our environment. "Out of sight, out of mind" has become more than a common expression—it has become a cultural habit, encouraging us to ignore the consequences of our actions once they are hidden from view. This mindset extends far beyond environmental stewardship. It is increasingly evident in other areas of society, where difficult problems are too often concealed instead of honestly confronted and responsibly addressed. Nowhere is this tendency more consequential than in our politics. In the United States, we devote enormous amounts of time, energy, money, and public spectacle to political campaigns and elections, especially those for the presidency. Yet despite the immense importance of the office, we have no widely accepted process for rigorously and truthfully evaluating the character, judgment, integrity, and emotional fitness of those seeking to become the nation's chief executive. Instead, we often rely on optimism—that our democratic institutions, the Constitution, and the system of checks and balances will compensate for any personal shortcomings of the individual elected to the office. That hope may at times be justified, but it is not a substitute for careful scrutiny. Just as neglecting what enters our sewer systems eventually pollutes the waters on which we all depend, neglecting to examine the character of those entrusted with great power can have consequences that spread far beyond any single election. In both cases, what we choose to ignore does not disappear; it simply emerges elsewhere, often with far greater costs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658955492553-EQJ0LCTZNLB7C4BBQ9ZF/20220727_164413.jpg New Minority -Current Work - gorge 60”x 72”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. Their excesses can no longer be held. They rise and spill their banks, pouring across the earth in a formidible flood that gathers all things into its ruin. Nothing stands untouched. Nothing escapes the pull of the current. What begins as abundance becomes deluge, and the deluge becomes judgment. At its heart gapes a monstrous gorge, a great mouth without beginning or end, forever swallowing, forever spewing forth the rancid harvest of arrogance, hubris, and self-inflicted corruption. It devours only to vomit its poison back upon the world, feeding the very blight from which it hungers to be free. For there is no filling the abyss within them. It is older than memory and deeper than desire, an emptiness that widens with every feast. The more they consume, the more ravenous they become, until appetite itself is all that remains. They gorge not because they are hungry, but because they have forgotten what it is to be whole. And now the current they summoned carries them. It grinds without mercy, wearing away all that resists it. They cannot turn against its flow, for it is made from the substance of their own convictions, from the righteous lies repeated so often they have become scripture in their own minds. To step from the torrent would be to stand naked before the truth. To confess that the foundations were false. To admit that the kingdom they built was raised upon sand. So, they surrender themselves to the flood. Better to be carried into the abyss than to speak the one word that might yet save them: enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658935855340-CJ2ZLVQVT3WMDB7OD772/20220727_112352+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the gorge 4”x 5”, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658509489937-Z2XA3U56S3993J8NGGQ4/20220722_124401+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - marker 5.25”x 4.5”, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658507892218-YJN3M9CRJWG650485Z6V/20220722_122737+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - marker 60”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. I created this painting in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on June 24, 2022, to overturn Roe v. Wade. In doing so, the Court revoked the constitutional protection of a woman's right to abortion—a precedent that had stood since 1973—and transferred authority over reproductive choice from the individual to the state. Titled Marker, the painting is an allegory of that profound rupture. A woman's severed head rests upon a tree stump, separated from her body. The image suggests that her mind—her capacity for judgment, autonomy, and self-determination—has been violently disconnected from the body over which she no longer has sovereign control. In this sense, the Court's ruling symbolically "aborted" a woman's right to govern her own life and make decisions about her own body. Though unsettling, the painting is not solely an image of loss. It stands as both a record of a deeply regressive moment in American history and an act of quiet defiance—a testament to the enduring conviction that bodily autonomy, dignity, and the freedom to choose cannot be extinguished by judicial decree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658686320194-QQ8GNSLJS272XJZF4NP5/20220724_134719+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - beached 4.25”x 5”, sharpie on paper 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658684708763-COY37AYWHCBMUXCJU3V7/20220724_133614+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - beached 72”x60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. Their heads rose and dipped with the slow rythm of the tide, knocking softly against one another in the shallows. The spectacle was grotesque, yet possessed an absurdity that bordered on the comic—like a congregation of weathered bobbleheads abandoned after the world had lost interest in its own jokes. Each swell coaxed a nod, each retreat drew them together again, lending their blank expression an uncanny semblance of purpose. They seemed almost engaged in conference, murmuring without voices as the sea gently arranged and rearranged their assembly. One could imagine them debating their prospects with solemn futility, unaware that the matter had long since slipped beyond their influence. After all, they had already determined their fate. Oblivious to the beach, to the bodies they had left behind, and to the indifferent tide that would soon claim them entirely, they drifted in their watery congress—bumping, turning, and politely yielding to one another, as though etiquette were the last bit of civility the ocean had failed to wash away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658256052124-BPYGS4MFNZ5YUQVIPZ83/20220719_143001+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - landfill 48”x 84”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. All lies still. Silent. A monument towers, casting its long shadow across the earth, unseen by those who live beneath it. Its poison rides the wind, seeps through rivers and rain, creeps beneath our thresholds. It enters without a sound— in every breath we draw, every meal we swallow, every night we surrender to sleep. Beneath the skin it takes root, patient as rot, nourished by the seeds we buried and chose to forget. There is no fleeing what we have made. Our hands have written this slow catastrophe across the land and into ourselves. The true inheritance is not ours to witness, but one future generations will uncover beneath the weight of all we left behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658152110271-WC55E1GE8A6N4Y2CNZIN/20220718_094211+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - a visit to the landfill 2.5”x 4.75”, ball point pen on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657654989188-6BP6EUAS1Z3BAB9ZRUDM/20220712_153323+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - gyre 4.75” x6.75”, ball point pen on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658006496049-5BDYTNAJUI7E5TTBQ17S/20220716_171135+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - gyre 80” x 96”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. We need only look to the oceans to see the gyre made visible. Across every sea, shifting currents gather the detritus of our civilization into vast, revolving islands of plastic and refuse. They grow relentlessly, fed by our excess, until they become monuments to a culture unable to contain the consequences of its own appetites. "Turning and turning in the widening gyre"—the opening line of William Yeats's The Second Coming—captures not merely a moment of disorder but the terrifying acceleration of a civilization that has lost its moral center. The image is as haunting today as when it was first written. The widening gyre is no longer only a poetic vision; it is our political reality, our environmental inheritance, our collective conscience made visible. We have entered this widening circle before. History does not repeat itself with mechanical precision, but it returns with familiar rhythms. In times of uncertainty, the promise of the authoritarian is always the same: surrender your freedom, and I will give you order; silence your doubts, and I will give you certainty; abandon your neighbors, and I will restore your greatness. The strongman speaks in absolutes because absolutes are easier than truth. He promises prosperity while demanding obedience, security while cultivating fear, unity while defining ever more enemies to despise. Each lie prepares the ground for the next until deception itself becomes the architecture of power. Yet regimes built upon falsehood carry within themselves the seeds of their own undoing. Power sustained by fear must forever manufacture new fears. Authority founded on deception must endlessly invent new deceptions. Such governments do not merely impoverish those they rule; they hollow out the moral foundations upon which every enduring society depends. They enrich the few, diminish the many, and, like the widening gyres that choke our oceans, continue to gather the refuse of their own corruption until the weight of accumulated falsehood becomes impossible to bear. The gyre is more than a pattern of wind and water. It is the enduring symbol of civilizations that mistake accumulation for progress, power for justice, and domination for strength. Left unchecked, every widening circle eventually reaches the point at which it can no longer sustain itself. Then the current shifts, and history begins its inexorable turn once more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657649010055-SJGGYULD9U30MRHLHKSZ/20220712_135430+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the flood 60”x 72”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. Whether understood as biblical myth or scientific reality, a cataclysmic flood has long symbolized the same fundamental outcome: the purging of what has become corrupt and the cleansing of the earth of its contaminants. Today, climate change and rising sea levels suggest that such a transformative event may no longer belong solely to ancient stories but could become part of our near future. The flood can also be understood as a metaphor. Just as rising waters wash away what can no longer endure, a rising tide of political and social change is needed to sweep away the carelessness, division, and destructive ideas that have poisoned both our society and the land we inhabit. Renewal requires more than repairing what is broken; it demands the courage to discard what has become irredeemable and to build anew on firmer moral and civic foundations. In that sense, it is time not simply to rebuild, but to begin again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657562026959-SOOXQFOLGUY21RNEGIP3/20220711_134640.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the flood 3.5”x 5”, ball point pen on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1656973492954-2B654VVKLOIUBV6KNDC7/20220704_181552+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - wasteland 5”x 3.75”, ball point pen , sharpie, on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657548332508-UASHIY4JIERWWDOOM3G5/20220711_095613+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - wasteland 60”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1656951323943-RYH1T7OM2N4ZYVKS6KDA/20220704_120500+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - merica 4.25”x 5.5”, ball point pen on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657747435971-W6LJ33AX9NM3GWECJA6F/20220713_171522+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - merica 60”x 46”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. Merica is not the land of the free and the home of the brave, it is a backward, desolate landscape where the thoughtless gather to commiserate in their self-inflicted misery. Years of short-sighted decisions and an eager embrace of environmentally destructive policies have stripped the land for immediate profit, choking its waterways with garbage and chemical runoff, poisoning the air, and reducing once-living forests to endless expanses of clear-cut hillsides, splintered stumps, and streams stained with the colors of industrial waste. Everywhere, the horizon bears the same scars: land sacrificed for the next data center, strip mine, or landfill. The justification changes, but the outcome never does—a landscape hollowed out in pursuit of fleeting gain, with the costs deferred to everyone else and to the generations that follow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657062672610-TP690YGWHU015M7QBN8D/20220705_145435+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - epoch 70”x 89”, acrylic, spray, on canvas , 2022. This is the time in which we live: a moment when the political ideals and institutions that have sustained our democracy for more than 250 years have been systematically undermined by the current administration. Many Americans hoped that the Constitution, together with its system of checks and balances and the separation of powers, would be sufficient to protect our democracy from serious erosion. Instead, power has become increasingly concentrated in an authoritarian presidency, raising deep concerns about the future of our democracy. Many assumed that long-established constitutional norms and democratic traditions would continue to guide those in power. Instead, the administration has pursued an agenda that rolls back advances in civil rights and equality, reduces social programs relied upon by vulnerable individuals and communities, weakens environmental protections, and enacts tax policies that disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals and corporate interests. These policies have been presented as efforts to reduce government spending, eliminate waste, and promote economic growth through supply-side, or "trickle-down," economics. At the same time, they have often been accompanied by appeals to patriotism and religious identity, embodied in the slogan "Make America Great Again." This combination serves as powerful political propaganda that masks a broader consolidation of power. The result is a government that increasingly serves the interests of those who wield political and economic influence rather than the broader public. Instead of functioning primarily as an institution accountable to the people, government has become a vehicle through which those who remain in power can preserve their influence and greatly profit for themselves. We no longer function as a government that is 'Of the people, by the people, for the people'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1656883125485-H6H427UTCD56LPIJDRNO/20220702_154519+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - epoch 3”x 4”, ball point pen on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1656883092113-84ANHJYHE2C1BA3MKG0G/20220609_123002.jpg New Minority -Current Work - logs and heads 5”x 4.25”, ball point pen on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1656883101914-DALEEP55ER833YUT7XCL/20220628_105429+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - logs and heads 60”x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. Felled trunks from countless clear-cut old-growth forests lay scattered across the scarred earth, their severed trunks choking streams and rivers until the waterways ceased to flow, as though the land itself had forgotten how to breathe. Tangled barricades of rotting timber blocked the currents, and beneath them the water moved in slow, suffocating silence. The forest had not simply died. It lingered. Its decay seeped into the soil, the mist, and the dreams of those who wandered too close, as though the ancient woods still remembered every wound inflicted upon them. Each splintered trunk stood as a monument to a creed of ruthless expendability. Everything living could be manipulated, harvested, consumed, and discarded. Nothing possessed value beyond its usefulness. Once stripped of purpose, it was abandoned to rot. The forests were condemned as obstacles to progress, sacrificed for the relentless expansion of data centers, oil refineries, and hydraulic fracturing—monuments to an insatiable hunger for natural resources and the unimaginable wealth they yielded. But the trees were never the only victims. People, too, were measured by the same merciless arithmetic. They were regarded as expendable tools, hands without voices, sent to enact the will of ravenous politicians whose ambitions had become inseparable from the appetites of the corporations that fed them. But still many supported the horror as they unquestionably believed the lies that were fed to them - the lies of Making America Great Again. Yet something remained beneath the stumps and poisoned earth. The roots still gripped the darkness below, weaving through graves of stone and forgotten things older than memory. Every tree that fell seemed to awaken another silence beneath the ground, patient and listening. The land had endured every cut, every fire, every poisoned river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1662832190221-WZY3ALC85V1A5H8G7JCL/20220622_125014+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the raft 60”x 70”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. We cling instinctively to whatever will keep us afloat, anything that promises to hold our heads above water while others struggle beneath the waves. In moments of genuine peril, such a response is simply the reflex of survival. But when the danger is imagined rather than real, the impulse can become something darker. It is no longer about survival, but supremacy; not about preserving life, but securing dominance. The desire is to emerge victorious at any cost, to stand above others, to feel powerful while remaining indifferent to who is left behind. In such moments, people often bind themselves to causes that affirm their deepest prejudices and insecurities. They come to believe that they are inherently more deserving than others, entitled to privilege, precedence, and power. This conviction is rooted in arrogance and hubris, in the belief that one's identity alone confers superiority. These impulses find expression in white Christian nationalism. Adherents often view themselves, as white Christians and "true" Americans, as a divinely ordained people whose rightful dominance is under siege. To them, diversity, pluralism, equality, and democratic inclusion are not civic virtues but existential threats. Their worldview is animated by the fear that sharing power is equivalent to losing it. The racism, bigotry, prejudice, and hostility that flow from this ideology are sustained by fear, ignorance, and an intolerance of difference. Its vision is not of a society strengthened by its diversity, but of one purified through exclusion: a nation imagined as white, culturally homogeneous, and hierarchically ordered, where immigrants and people of color are marginalized, women are confined to subordinate roles, LGBTQ people are pushed to the margins, and other vulnerable communities are treated as outsiders rather than fellow citizens. Like a person grasping desperately at driftwood, white Christian nationalism clings to myths of racial and religious supremacy, mistaking exclusion for strength and domination for security. Yet a society does not become stronger by narrowing its definition of who belongs. It is diminished whenever fear eclipses compassion, whenever prejudice supplants justice, and whenever the humanity of some is sacrificed to preserve the imagined superiority of others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1656883032254-H0BSC1KDTUY7PQXREAPY/20220621_172136+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the raft 3”x5”, ball point pen, sharpie on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1784745865933-M5MX7IPWTPLWG0YA391S/jones_bobber.jpg New Minority -Current Work - bobber 72” x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022. A single human head breaks the surface of the trash-choked water, rising and falling with the slow rhythm of the waves. At first glance, it is almost indistinguishable from the rest of the floating debris—a faded plastic jug, tangled fishing line, bloated scraps of Styrofoam—but it persists, bobbing with uncanny steadiness, like the cork float marking the place where an angler's lure once waited beneath the current. It drifts close to the crumbling break wall, where generations of people once gathered with rods and tackle boxes, casting lines into water that promised life instead of poison. No one fishes here anymore. They can't. The river has become a slow-moving vein of contamination, thick with heavy metals, industrial solvents, petroleum runoff, and an invisible bloom of microplastics that infiltrate every current. Fish still swim below, if they can still be called fish, but whatever they have become is no longer fit for hook, table, or even curiosity. For decades the river was treated as a convenient graveyard for everything society no longer wanted. Plastic, chemicals, sewage, forgotten machines, abandoned dreams—everything eventually found its way here. What had once been a source of drinking water, a place for swimming on hot summer afternoons, a highway for commerce, and a thriving ecosystem was reduced to a receptacle for neglect. The protections that once slowed the damage were dismantled piece by piece. The Environmental Protection Agency had been hollowed out, stripped of the scientists, inspectors, and regulations that once forced industries to account for the waste they created. Freed from oversight and consequence, corporations returned to the oldest, cheapest solution imaginable: they dumped their poisons directly into the river. Day after day, year after year, the water absorbed what no landfill, treatment plant, or shareholder report would acknowledge. Now the river keeps its own counsel. Its surface conceals more than it reveals. Beneath the opaque water lie rusting vehicles, mountains of refuse, chemical sludge, and things no one has bothered to catalog. Some were thrown away deliberately. Others simply washed downstream after years of indifference. The current shifts them in silence, occasionally surrendering one back to the light. The lone head continues to bob against the break wall, indifferent to the waves that lift and lower it. Whether it belongs to a living person, a corpse, or something the river itself has remade is impossible to tell from a distance. In a place where neglect has become policy and pollution has become ordinary, certainty is the first thing to disappear. And the river, burdened by everything humanity refused to carry, has begun returning its burdens to the surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657223158143-LJKQTF846C4C9UL80RVK/20220707_153458+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - dumb as logs 19.75”x25.5”, pastel on paper, 2022. I use images of felled logs in these paintings to draw a comparison between them and the decapitated heads strewn throughout the landscapes. The logs function as a visual metaphor for the colloquial expression "dumb as a log," representing those who, in my view, continue to support this administration without critical thought. Both the logs and the severed heads float through or choke waterways and lie scattered across barren landscapes, evoking the abandonment of environmental protections that this administration has encouraged. Some of the paintings are made on cut slabs of wood, with the bark edge intentionally left intact, as though the diminutive worlds depicted within them occupy hollowed-out logs left to decay. Streams of color move across the surfaces of the paintings in ways that may initially appear inviting, yet they also suggest that vitality is being siphoned from the surrounding landscape, draining it of life and leaving it desolate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657566448628-1XVD1RA6CI7OSJA0S6YI/20220711_145645+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - floater 19.75”x 25.5”, pastel on paper, 2022. A single head drifts past, turning slowly in the black water, its vacant eyes fixed upon nothing. It bobs with the current as though it has surrendered not only its life, but its will. Another follows. Then another. Soon the river becomes a grotesque procession, a silent flotilla of the lost, each face carried inexorably toward the waiting sea. The water bears them without judgment, as though this terrible pilgrimage has become routine. I know these faces. There is the preacher whose sermons once thundered with certainty, now mute beneath the indifferent sky. Beside him drifts the schoolteacher who taught generations to question, to reason, to seek truth wherever it could be found. There goes the mayor who swore to serve the public good, followed by the businessman who measured success in careful calculations and prudent risks. Oh—there is the doctor, the healer, and close behind, the nurse whose hands once steadied the frightened and the dying. I think I glimpse the fire chief, still wearing the ghost of command upon his expression, and the policeman who once promised order amid chaos. Even my neighbor passes by, a face so ordinary and familiar that it wounds me more than all the others combined. The river makes no distinction. It gathers the learned and the simple, the honorable and the ambitious, the compassionate and the complacent alike. Their titles have dissolved as completely as their convictions. They drift together in the same current, equal at last in their surrender. How did they all come to this? Not through force, at least not at first. They were not dragged screaming into the water. They stepped toward it willingly, one careful foot after another, lured by promises that seemed too practical to refuse. His answers arrived polished and immediate, requiring neither patience nor reflection. Every complicated question was reduced to a slogan. Every uncertainty became absolute certainty. Every difficult moral dilemma was transformed into an easy choice. There was comfort in such simplicity. His words were plain, uncluttered by nuance or doubt. He spoke with the confidence of a man who never hesitated, and people mistook confidence for wisdom. His directness felt like honesty. His certainty resembled strength. His charisma disguised itself as authenticity. He understood that people weary of complexity crave voices that sound unmistakably sure, and he gave them exactly what they longed to hear. His greatest talent was not persuasion but concealment. Each speech was carefully constructed, every pause measured, every phrase sharpened to slip beneath skepticism and lodge itself within the heart. He cloaked manipulation in plain language, cruelty in common sense, ambition in the garments of public service. He borrowed the vocabulary of virtue while hollowing virtue from within. He wrapped deception in familiarity until lies felt more comfortable than truth. By the time his true intentions emerged, the current had already taken hold. One by one, they surrendered their judgment for certainty, their conscience for belonging, their questions for applause. And the river accepted them all without resistance, carrying their silent heads onward toward the sea, where memory itself would dissolve into the dark, and where no one could remember precisely where conviction had ended and surrender had begun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657822448802-L9K72W3POPZVROSNCLY8/20220714_140501+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - brethren 19.75”x 25.5”, pastel on paper, 2022. There exists a religious, cult-like devotion amongst the Trump supporters and followers. The distorted views of white evangelical christian nationlism, as proselytized by this administration, has been used to captivate sycophantic political officials, financial supporters, and followers. 'Make America Great Again' is their slogan and how they have been attempting to do this is by negating our established democracy, subverting our constitution, and trampling upon the civil rights of established citizens, especially people of color, or immigrants. In their book, any semblance of human decency is a sign of weakness. What binds them together is a mindless creed of hatred, power, and greed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1657905084615-GRW1F61GMW33JHJCYKPK/20220715_130027+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the prophet 19.75”x 25.5”, pastel on paper, 2022. This administration continues to wield religion is a powerful instrument for consolidating authority, shaping public sentiment, and deepening its influence among those who seek meaning, stability, or reassurance in uncertain times. For many individuals, the language of faith carries a profound emotional and moral weight; when political ideas or leaders are presented beneath even the thinnest veneer of religious legitimacy, they can acquire an aura of righteousness that discourages scrutiny and invites unquestioning devotion. In moments of fear, confusion, or social upheaval, the desire for certainty can become a vulnerability, allowing carefully crafted messages to take root not because they withstand honest examination, but because they appear to offer spiritual validation. The result is that some may place their trust in a figure who assumes the mantle of moral authority without embodying the principles they claim to represent—a false prophet whose appeal rests less on truth than on the power of symbolism, persuasion, and misplaced faith. In doing so, people may be drawn away from thoughtful reflection and the careful evaluation of claims, instead accepting assertions based on the appearance of virtue rather than the substance of character and conviction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1658158942680-4KKJEB3EE3YX0O3UQI4I/20220718_113343+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - followers 19.75”x 25.5”x pastel on paper, 2022. Fear, mistrust, anger, hatred, and ignorance nourish a culture of victimhood. Each emotion can be exploited, transformed into a tool of manipulation that persuades people to surrender their independence in exchange for the illusion of security. Together, these corrosive forces erode self-worth, fostering a longing for shared grievance and making people susceptible to leaders who promise swift relief from their suffering. The remedies such leaders offer, however, are little more than political sedatives. Deportation. Oppression. Exclusion. These measures merely conceal the symptoms while leaving the deeper social and economic wounds untouched. Their message is seductively simple: We will be great again if you relinquish your independence and follow me. Pledge your loyalty, and prosperity will be yours. Victimhood, often rooted in a perceived loss of status or entitlement, is then redirected toward those least able to defend themselves. Immigrants, people of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, the elderly, and economically disadvantaged communities become convenient scapegoats—not because they are responsible for society's hardships, but because they fail to conform to an idealized vision of a wealthy, homogenized, white Christian America. Followers are encouraged to believe that these groups have diminished the promise of the American Dream, undermining white prosperity and male dominance. Their leader claims that these marginal communities are completely dependent upon financial support from the coffers of white America’s taxes and greatly diminish a budget that could be applied to more useful and profitable enterprises. Nationalism, xenophobia, racism, misogyny, and bigotry thrive on such narratives. They are the fertile soil from which incivility and contempt grow. Ignorance makes it easy to cultivate the myth of a common enemy, uniting people not through shared purpose or compassion, but through fear, resentment, and exclusion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1668359276190-28LUPHZBKXJ9PATAA8K5/20221112_164801+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the ship wrecked 9.5”x 26”, varnish, acrylic on basswood, 2022. As they gather in the stagnant water of a swampy beach, they do not even realize they are lost. They cannot see that their ranks are thinning, that their frantic cries to "Make America Great Again" have become little more than echoes of an empty promise. They cling to a slogan long after its meaning has withered, while their self-proclaimed leader fans the flames of hatred, anger, bigotry, and prejudice until they burn with a fever all their own. Yet for all the fury, all the spectacle, and all the outrage, they remain incapable of bending history to their will. Each failure, each setback, each unfulfilled promise only hardens their devotion. They mistake fanaticism for conviction and grievance for purpose, pledging themselves ever more completely to a cause that erodes the very democratic foundations it claims to defend. Blind to the irony, they stand up believing they are securing their future, even as they sink into impotence and hasten their own demise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1668517471691-0CW9K1HM9BCEF0ETVZKC/20221115_075157+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - and they all fall down 10”x 26”, varnish, acrylic, on basswood, 2022. Their world has withered into black and white. It is not merely the poverty of their prejudices, but the architecture of their entire perception. The innumerable shades between certainty and doubt, virtue and vice, truth and falsehood have dissolved into a barren landscape of absolutes. Nuance has become intolerable. Ambiguity, an enemy. To perceive complexity would require a flexibility they no longer possess. Their minds have calcified beneath the weight of inherited convictions. They no longer think; they echo. Each slogan, each doctrine, each convenient falsehood has been repeated until repetition itself has acquired the appearance of truth. A lie, spoken often enough, ceases to demand evidence; it asks only for obedience. Memory replaces understanding. Familiarity replaces wisdom. They mistake certainty for knowledge and submission for faith. Their political creeds and religious dogmas have become monuments to their own fear of uncertainty. They kneel before scripture while neglecting the spirit that once breathed life into its words, preserving the letter as though embalming a corpse. What was meant to illuminate has become an idol; what was meant to liberate has become a chain. To question is, for them, an act of betrayal. Doubt is condemned before it can become inquiry. Curiosity is disciplined into silence. And so they surrender the burden of thought to authorities who promise simple answers to irreducible realities, exchanging the difficult freedom of discernment for the comforting captivity of certainty. In time, such certainty exacts its price. The mind that refuses to bend forgets how to move. Convictions harden into fossils. The soul grows brittle beneath the weight of its own inflexibility. The imagination has long ago shriveled to the ground. They become like ancient trees long dead at the core, their bark still standing though life has long since departed. To the distant eye they appear steadfast, even noble. Yet the first true wind reveals what time has concealed. Their branches splinter. Their trunks fracture. They do not fall because they are weak, but because they have mistaken rigidity for strength. Living trees survive the storm because they yield to it. Only the dead insist upon remaining unmoved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1666649805601-PQPYK0304UY900DOXL9B/20221024_180340+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - swamp people 27”x 22” overall(l. 27”x 9.5”, r. 26”x 10.5”), varnish, acrylic on two basswood slices, 2022. Life upon land began with a hesitant act of emergence: primitive, gelatinous creatures dragging themselves from the steaming depths of a primordial swamp billions of years ago, leaving behind the certainty of water for the harsh and unfamiliar realm of air, gravity, and exposure. From those obscure and most forgotten beginnings came the staggering complexity of life—the forests, the oceans, the human mind itself. Yet there is something profoundly unsettling in remembering where we began. Beneath the layers of civilization, intellect, and self-awareness, we remain descendants of those ancient organisms whose only commandment was survival. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that so many of the qualities that governed those earliest creatures still haunt the human condition. The instinct to consume, to compete, to dominate, to preserve the self at the expense of others—these ancient impulses linger beneath our carefully constructed identities. We have clothed them in ambition, ideology, and justification, but their origins remain primitive. The same hunger that once drove a simple organism toward light and nourishment can, in human hands, become greed, cruelty, and an endless pursuit of power. In the wilderness, such impulses are not immoral; they are simply the language of existence. Nature is indifferent. A creature survives because it must, not because it is virtuous. The predator does not hate the prey, and the prey does not resent the predator. Both are participants in the ancient, amoral rhythm of life. But humanity’s peculiar burden is that we have become conscious of this struggle. We are creatures who can recognize our instincts and question them, who can look into the mirror of our own nature and ask whether we are obligated to obey every impulse that rises from the depths of our evolutionary past. The tragedy of civilization is that we often mistake our advancement for transcendence. We have built towering cities, created intricate technologies, and explored the farthest reaches of thought, yet the primordial swamp still exists within us. The ancient struggle continues—not only in the world around us, but within the human heart. We remain, in many ways, animals attempting to justify our distance from the animal kingdom. “Survival of the fittest” may be an accurate description of nature’s relentless process, but when transformed into a moral doctrine it becomes a surrender to our oldest instincts. A society founded solely upon competition, acquisition, and self-preservation is not an expression of humanity’s highest potential; it is merely the wilderness wearing the costume of civilization. The purpose of culture, ethics, and compassion is not to deny our origins, but to answer them—to prove that consciousness can become something more than an elaborate instrument for survival. The great existential question may not be where we came from, but what we choose to become. We carry within us the memory of the swamp, the ancient pull of instinct, and the endless demand to endure. But we also possess the rare and fragile ability to resist the gravity of our beginnings. Perhaps civilization is nothing more than humanity’s ongoing attempt to climb out of that primordial darkness—not by escaping what we are, but by deciding that what we are capable of becoming matters more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1666987079570-18Y22KBD41Z2QKT6N1N3/20221028_153249+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - they all followed each other into the sea 12”x 9”, varnish, acrylic on basswood, 2022. I often find myself wondering just how far the members of the MAGA movement are willing to go in their relentless display of loyalty to their leader. It is a devotion that appears unconditional, as though every instinct for skepticism or independent judgment has been surrendered in exchange for the comfort of unquestioning allegiance. They move as if under a spell—trance-like, caught in a state of perpetual somnambulism, sleepwalking through events while denying the existence of their own agency. At every opportunity, they affirm their faith in him without hesitation, defending contradictions, excusing transgressions, and recasting every challenge to his authority as evidence of persecution. Their trust is not merely political; it resembles something far more absolute, where doubt itself has become an act of betrayal. There is something almost biological in the dynamic. They behave less like a collection of independent individuals than like a parasitic single-celled organism, bound to a host upon whom they have become entirely dependent for identity, purpose, and survival. Remove the host, and the organism appears unable to define itself. The movement bears many of the hallmarks of a cult: the elevation of one man above institutions, the demand for unwavering loyalty, the creation of rigid boundaries between believers and outsiders, and a sense of shared mission that casts opponents not simply as rivals but as existential enemies. In that worldview, democratic norms and constitutional guardrails become obstacles to be overcome rather than principles to be preserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1668112868785-YZAD7DAHUC2F5ZZEW5BS/20221110_153050+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - ...bliss 8.25”x 6.5”, varnish, acrylic on basswood, 2022. When willful ignorance becomes a means of withdrawing from contemporary society, as though your vision were confined to the tunnel-like perspective of a half-submerged, hollow log; when you and those like you come to believe that this self-imposed, narrow prison is somehow closer to heaven because it shields and insulates you from the chaotic diversity of the real world; when you surrender your capacity for critical thought, reason, and independent judgment, choosing instead to follow a self-proclaimed authority with the unquestioning obedience of a mindless zombie; if your spoon fed nationalistic views prevent you from criticizing authorities and believe everything they tell you is fact; when you believe that love for country, freedom, and democracy is synonymous with white christian nationalism; when your submission to power extinguishes any desire for self-reflection or honest self-examination; when appeals to hatred and intolerance lead you to dismiss compassion and empathy as weaknesses until you can no longer recognize the suffering of others; when your entire identity is guided by the belief that stupidity is bliss—you know you are a MAGA Republican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1668102015987-37BII7ZA7HWTMYHONX8A/20221110_122229+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - ...everything 7.75”x 6.5”, acrylic on basswood, 2022. When your world has become so small, insular, and self-contained that every blind, thoughtless decision leaves you looking oblivious to the consequences of your own actions; when you cannot recognize your own behavior, your surroundings, or the possibility that changing your beliefs could improve not only your own life but the lives of others; when your relentless pursuit of a nostalgic, delusional comfort zone continually harms those around you; when your perspective is as confined as life inside a waterlogged, hollow log, unaware that an entire world exists beyond its walls—you know you're a MAGA Republican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1666910981639-Z8VW3HJT1X3PM7QOSSUP/20221027_181631+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - cesspool 12.5”x 9.5”, varnish, acrylic on basswood, 2022. They laugh and frolic with the carefree abandon of children, splashing one another, drifting on their backs beneath an open sky in the stagnant pool they have unwittingly created through their own neglect. What should inspire revulsion has, through repetition and reassurance, become a place of comfort. They wade through murky water without hesitation, convinced that no unseen danger could possibly lurk beneath its surface, because he has assured them that none exists. He tells them the water is pure in its own way, untouched by disease or harmful microorganisms despite every visible sign to the contrary. It is, he insists, "perfectly natural to swim in human and chemical waste." Such things are not hazards but blessings in disguise. "Exposure strengthens the immune system," he says. "I've done it myself." His certainty is offered in place of evidence, his confidence mistaken for proof. The warnings of doctors, scientists, and public health officials are dismissed as fearmongering or deception. Vaccinations against tetanus, diphtheria, cholera, and parasitic diseases are portrayed not as safeguards but as hidden threats, said to inflict greater harm than the illnesses they prevent. Every precaution becomes suspect; every expert, untrustworthy. And they believe him. They believe because doubt has been carefully redirected, because institutions once regarded as sources of knowledge have been recast as enemies of the truth. Science has become synonymous with corruption, medicine with manipulation. In the vacuum left behind, only his voice remains. Facts are no longer discovered but received from him alone, unquestioned and unchallenged, for he claims to speak not merely from conviction but from divine authority. If God has chosen him as His messenger, then to question the man is to question God Himself. And so, they surrender not only their judgment but their safety, trusting his words even as the water around them grows darker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1668115357330-SPM4XUZFBBINQ9NEOS7B/20221110_155828+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work wall grouping consisting of swamp people (center), they all followed each other into the sea (top), cesspool (bottom), …bliss(right), …everything(left), overall size 53”x 46”, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538715854-RUTZCHWUXSM9Z0MJQWB9/3.+sewer+.jpg New Minority -Current Work - sewer 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538708353-83RZG2OIM7BF7ZUQPKOX/2.+landfill.jpg New Minority -Current Work - landfill 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538723649-Z6IMJX7HE3T63QWPIF83/6.+the+flood.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the flood 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538743070-LPSGC8ZWIBLN0ID6MWIU/9.+helplessly+headless.jpg New Minority -Current Work - helplessly headless 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538730323-ZEP59K7U27IB7H4Z2XBI/7.+the+gorge.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the gorge 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659300372599-TWJ7Q14NJ35OIUGCXBL8/20220731_154715+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - marker 13”x 17” framed (under Plexiglas) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538752186-E3KABJYM2O6DOGUJSMZP/10.+sometimes+its+not+a+good+idea+to+walk+around+without+your+head.jpg New Minority -Current Work - sometimes it's not a good idea to walk around without your head 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1661538736601-WCG3BDTUUPYFH04WNU2B/8.+epoch.jpg New Minority -Current Work - epoch 13”x 17” framed (under plexi) 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659299297601-9TBXTZ0MHE5BTPY7I3Z7/20220731_154817+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - merica 13”x 17” framed 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659299306636-VUK3S57V9XJNFSO1ELTO/20220731_154923+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - wasteland 13”x 17” framed 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659299526624-645QCWAT2WC73GR8J9NX/20220731_155115+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - gyre 13”x 17” framed 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1659299325907-XD5ZOVJRDD247W9FGVYK/20220731_155032+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - marker 13”x 17” framed 8”x 10” archival inkjet print on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660331378808-AJ50GOYQ27818P60J7RE/20220812_135131+%281%29+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - dumb as logs Framed 24”x 36” (under Plexiglas) 18”x 24” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660331389560-4CBYYYQORT99WNYHL8Z6/20220812_140504+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - floater Framed 24”x 36” (under Plexiglas) 18”x 24” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660331399357-ZQQ710BG2LD5C18DK2HR/20220812_141033+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - followers Framed 24”x 36” (under Plexiglas) 18”x 24” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660331468797-S8XNY6OKJALA6ZWBG8QI/20220812_141843+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - brethren Framed 24”x 36” (under Plexiglas) 18”x 24” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1660331474096-S9GBEOVIHSW9L2J3J7SZ/20220812_142248+copy.jpg New Minority -Current Work - the prophet Framed 24”x 36” (under Plexiglas) 18”x 24” archival inkjet print on archival paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1665582045030-YBWCQS7OO1C5QE1LSW5K/image-asset.jpeg New Minority -Current Work - New Minority http://www.dennismichaeljones.space/new-minority-at-galerie-camille daily 0.75 2026-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663411808068-NXVYBIF7A65UWJ0ZCL85/20220916_223743+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - New Minority at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663411808068-NXVYBIF7A65UWJ0ZCL85/20220916_223743+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - New Minority at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663411824745-TZ3EELATFM13V4CIVMRT/20220916_165216+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - 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New Minority at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663437989420-4JMQSMTR0IK1H7X5GMF9/20220916_223829.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - sewer at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438001707-M9U6Z4B2VOX2I2PKOMLZ/20220916_165313+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - gyre at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438222922-JBKMOIG21MT7Y6375UMH/20220916_223034+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - epoch at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438025667-5Q2Z03K0J0H4C94Q2SY8/20220916_165336+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - the gorge at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438057399-DIPYDTXGY9L0CQ4O5P03/20220916_165324+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - landfill at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438182198-D0MQF0PT0R9G94EK4ZR1/20220916_165604+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - the flood at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438043333-HHPLTDFOK6NUU04SMJ4M/20220916_163959+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - marker at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438301047-XF1TEV8EYRETF8U4PD65/20220916_223212+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - beached at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438241946-BI4Q7Z0SI03QDEIEQJQG/20220917_134935+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - stacked at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438258755-VLZDT905DMO2MUJUYH79/20220917_134800+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - the obstructionists at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663517270129-PPG2S87HCGD7S874AHI6/20220918_115301.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - log with head at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438285800-Z6NU3EE9W8LGDJ2VE3IJ/20220917_134731+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - crotchshot at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663517277816-5RUT1NG9VWBUQMSP70M2/20220918_115014+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - stacked and two useful logs at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438328865-T4WLQY07BAVYH6ID9YY1/20220916_165631+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - two useful logs at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438154522-8I6FFJYLP12U7SZQJ55R/20220916_165535+copy.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - the false prophet and followers at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1663438315047-Z36MZGO40CEXGNKP0XDZ/20220916_223304.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - helplessly headless, sometimes it's not a good idea to walk around without your head, the gorge, sewer at Galerie Camille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1662828268381-QJCCF8HCV3ALGFLER0WW/IMG_4901.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - New Minority at Galerie Camille Delivering my work to Galerie Camille…15 paintings and 15 digital prints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1662828539732-OGHJIPJLLA4IA0O6RB8H/FB_IMG_1662819016358.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - New Minority at Galerie Camille A bit more preview of my work at Galerie Camille. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1662828274755-ZYXKBSESUN73OABCGG3F/IMG_20220910_101136_653.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille - New Minority at Galerie Camille A bit of preview of my work at Galerie Camille. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57fcffa62994caed2c22d479/1662828310834-T30TEBHIQLUTNBD4WPNS/newminority_squarewebflyer.jpg New Minority at Galerie Camille