Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from Samuel Levi Jones, currently on view in Infinite Blue.Sam

 Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from Samuel Levi Jones, currently on view in Infinite Blue.Samuel Levi Jones makes assemblage paintings out of dismantled books. He is interested in challenging the assumed authority of institutional texts on history, law, medicine, and higher education, and in what he calls the “information that is selectively left out.” By obscuring the texts’ content and creating new formal and material arrangements, he undermines the books’ canonical status; at the same time, he repurposes the often racially and socially discriminatory histories they contain.Composed of several medical books deconstructed by the artist, Blue Pill makes a poignant, tongue-in-cheek reference to a famous scene from the popular film The Matrix (1999): the protagonist must choose between a red pill, granting knowledge, truth—and adversity; or a blue pill, for continued ignorance, illusion—and security. In reading history, Jones suggests we have the same choice.Samuel Levi Jones. Blue Pill, 2017. Deconstructed medical books on canvas, 60 x 57 inches (152.4 x 144.8 cm) -- source link

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