I did my research tidbit on a local artist named Samuel Levi Jones. He moved out to the Bay Area from Indiana to receive a MFA from Mills College, graduating in 2012. He was recently an artist in residence at Recology SF showcasing a very special and unique piece as displayed above. The idea behind this piece was "deconstructing used encyclopedias as a means of creating a medium that communicates a feeling of being on the outside, as well as providing a possible resolution to the search for a place of inclusion and identity as an outsider." While this is an interesting concept to bring to art, it's not his first time. Many of his other works involve some form of "framing of power and struggles between exclusion and equality by desecrating historical material, then reimagining new works." He also likes to manipulate the new and the old to create a sense of rejecting the norm.
