RON JUDE, DARK MATTER painting and Ju|’hoansi in Namibia)

and Ju|’hoansi in Namibia)

imagining them as inhabitants of a world without humans

The resulting images might resemble the art of painting

We’re caught off guard and overwhelmed

Looking for the timeless spirit of the mountains

RON JUDE, DARK MATTER painting and Ju|’hoansi in Namibia)In Dark Matter, Ron Jude revisits the source material taken from photographs in his hometown newspaper in Central Idaho in the American West. In this new body of work, Jude reimagines how these photographs can be configured to reflect this microcosms collective mood and values. Motivated by a sense of unease and bewilderment with the cultural bifurcation of America, and grounded in a sense of tragedy, loss, and rage, Jude uses a looping tempo of