"Monopoly House" PJ Mills

PJ Mills, Miami, FL
Monopoly House, 2025
Oil on paper
18 x 18”

The paintings submitted for the exhibition “Our Common Ground” are landscape and simple object studies. They were done after the last election in our country when my feelings were simply focused on the notion of “our” collective duties as humans are simply one: We are stewards of this planet, this country, and the relationships that bind us all. Our duties as stewards include everything from the pollinators that assist feeding us to our homes and everything that encompasses. Simplify that.

Ralph Nader spoke at my high school graduation and said he had no advise for us other than the words of the late President John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” We were then stewards of our country as well as the planet.