Frederick Jones’s art thesis features a handful of Crayola crayons on a white sheet of paper on the floor. The brightly colored crayons are branded with corporate symbols and trapped in cylindrical paper straitjackets, representing how the beauty of the human spirit has been corporationalized. The astute observer can hear the crayons cry out “Why? Why have you forsaken us?!” as he passes by. Jones’s thesis represents the plight of our souls: packaged, forced to conform, and used by small children to make crude depictions of their families, houses, and friends on construction paper. The crayons reach out towards the viewer like so many small fingers, challenging them to question the meaning of life and color, and the morality of stem-cell research.

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