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If you're not familiar with photographer Tom Jones, you are missing out. But you don't have to be, because: "Rival meanings and multiple intended audiences are a sophisticated hallmark of Jones’s work, and especially prevalent in Remnants. This is readily understood even in the consideration of the series title: the OED reveals the word to mean all of the following: “a small remaining quantity of something,” “a surviving trace,” or “A part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed, or destroyed.” In his use of them, the etchings themselves become a “remnant” — a literal trace of the racist, America-first, genocidal and xenophobic past-that-still-exists-in-the-present regarding the legacy of our post-colonial thinking. The etchings become a ghost or a vesper hovering just above the surface of things historic but also of the mundane and of the now." Read more of our in-depth analysis of Ho-Chunk artist Tom Jones's work in our most recent edition of Exposure Magazine: https://medium.com/exposure-magazine/in-the-present-day-and-in-the-present-tense-looking-at-tom-joness-remnants-2bd46c286f93