Mary Jones: Reservations examines the seductive, curated spaces of contemporary luxury culture through a layered process that moves from torn book pages to painted photograph to enlarged giclée to finished painting. Sourcing exclusively from designer Erik Kuster's Metropolitan Luxury, Jones applies paint to printed pages, photographs the result, enlarges and prints on canvas, then paints again — each step reinforcing photography as interpretation and preventing the viewer from discerning original from final passage. The seamlessness becomes conceptual: sanitized "elsewhere" spaces remixed into confessions of artificiality, where gesture contradicts perspectival order and desire is revealed as continuously performed into existence through viewership.
