Dupont in Detail: Jasper Johns is Everywhere

It turns out Jasper Johns’s obsession with taking a single object and looking at it from every angle and variation is contagious. Thanks to the imagery in Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme, I’m noticing targets:

Images of things that look like targets

Seeing bulls-eyes in sewer lids, gates, bikes, and more.

numbers:

Images of numbers found on houses and signs

Numbers on houses and street signs, especially when stenciled, remind me of Johns’s multiple 0–9 series.

and flags everywhere:

Images of things that look like flags

Is that a crosswalk, or a flag? Stairs, or stripes?

And these examples were collected in just half an hour of walking around the neighborhood with a camera. I have a feeling that I’ll be seeing echoes of the Jasper Johns exhibition long after it leaves the Phillips in September.

Amy Wike, Publicity and Marketing Coordinator

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