R&B for Ghosts | Jonathon Rosemond

Jonathon Rosemond is seduced by material. This often begins with a visceral encounter—an intuitive recognition of a material’s beauty or latent potential. It’s not fully rational. He follows this impulse without fixed intention, allowing it to unfold into unexpected directions. What emerges is an irresistible compulsion: a seductive pull toward material that precedes meaning, yet ultimately gives rise to it.

R&B for Ghosts names this impulse that runs through the work. It is a pull toward what is difficult to look at directly—toward crisis, decay, and the unstable edges of the human—but approached through beauty. Not beauty as resolution, but as overwhelm: something that exceeds the senses even as it seduces them. The work leans into this tension, where attraction becomes a way of approaching what might otherwise be refused. In this sense, seduction is not a surface effect but a method of encounter. What draws the viewer in—light, clarity, shimmer—also carries something more abject underneath. The works do not resolve this contradiction. Instead, they sustain it, allowing beauty and unease to coexist, indistinguishable from one another.

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Image: Jonathon Rosemond, Scan 193, 2026, digital image, dimensions variable