Gregory Eddi Jones, 2016-2017
Flowers for donald #21 (talent show [in 3-d])
Created by Gregory Eddi Jones in 2017. The artwork is an inkjet print of a digital collage constructed from appropriated images and digital drawings, displayed at 91.44 x 76.2 cm.
As a ‘post-photographic’ artist, Gregory Eddi Jones composes works that he did not necessarily create himself using a camera. Instead, he works with existing, edited or found digital images which he collects and combines to build a digital photo montage. Take some time to discover all the elements used in this playful still life. What do you see? The title of the series, Flowers for Donald, is an ironic reference to the political situation of 2016, when Donald Trump won the American presidential elections. With this collection of collages, Gregory Eddi Jones comments on the chaotic political climate of that period and the sensational reporting in American media. Notice how Jones deliberately includes a piece of the photo editing software Photoshop in the background, as if to underline how manipulable and changeable photographs are in the digital domain.
© Gregory Eddi Jones, courtesy of the Foam Collection