Ben Jones: Envision Empower Embrace

Ben Jones’s mural Envision Empower Embrace is is based on selected imagery from his recent paintings which address events related to social justice, climate change, and environmental disasters.

Ben Jones’s mural is a powerful aesthetic and political statement, intended to inspire thought and action on the part of viewers.  We are invited to contemplate his work by occupying the chair that is to the right of the large central fish, as if to complete the mural.  This notion of collaboration is central to the creation of this digitally produced mural. The photographer and artist Peter Jacobs, a longtime resident of Montclair, worked with Ben Jones to create this work by taking pictures and editing them into this particular monumental composition.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.