Marrying conceptual rigor, intellectual inquiry, and formal abstraction, Jones explores power structures and the framing of history. He creates expansive pieces from historical material that he “desecrates,” as he puts it, and reimagines. Most often this material is books–encyclopedias, law books, medical texts—the institutional tomes that bear and propagate history through a dominant societal lens, at the expense of devalued and repressed individuals and cultures. He deconstructs the books, stripping out their content, and reconstructs them into formally elegant, enticingly tactile, abstract compositions that invite the viewer to consider what has been omitted or erased, and the attendant struggles between exclusion and equality.