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was only later that he found encouragement for such more to clarify a pre-determined notion than to spring an
autobiographical symbolism in the writings of Jung and idea.
Nietzsche. In Jung's theories of a collective unconscious, The cumulative effect of free association developed
archetypal images, and the hermaphroditic nature of the through series is not only essential for the expression of
psyche, Jones found corroboration of the universality of his inner reality but is central to the evolution of Jones'
his language. From Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, he imagery and spatial concepts. The pictorial and formal
derived confirmation of the richness and value of alle- concerns of the present series have their roots mostly in
gorical self-revelation. paintings and lithographs of 1964 and 1965. Lithography,
In his earlier career, Jones often liberated his sub- of which he is undeniably a master, is a medium in which
conscious by the process of automatic drawing. He would Jones has become so comfortable that he as often origi-
rule off a series of picture formats in a small sketch-book nates ideas in his prints as in his paintings. Sketches for
or on a sheet of Arches and rapidly sketch a progression lithographs intended for, but eventually discarded from,
of ideas, each mental jump triggered by the previous the Concerning Marriages folio (1964) were the kernel of
thought until just short of total realization, at which paintings like Red Girl and Green Girl, executed either
point he would move to the canvas to let the pictorial during or just prior to his American sojourn of 1964-5,
idea crystallize in paint and colour. Having established which anticipate the fetish imagery of garters and stock-
his glossary, his recent practice is to employ the method ings and the close-up style of the present exhibition.

Above
Pathway 1966
canvas and shelf
50 x 40 in. and shelf

You dare 1967
canvas and steps
72 x 60 in. and steps