MONOGRAM 1 - Ron Jude, Dark Matter city guide a book that doesn’t privilege

a book that doesn’t privilege either the art world or the design world but puts them in dialogue with each other

progress and identity within middle-class American society

geometric lines that he called meanders

embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States

has generated eccentric

MONOGRAM 1 - Ron Jude, Dark Matter city guide a book that doesn’t privilegeIn 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