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De Jong has referred to his creative output as ‘media dreaming’ and ‘culture jamming’. He selects familiar images from both popular culture (a favourite being the epic Star Wars film series) and more ‘ancient’ sources such as photographs and etchings from early newsprint and books. He then ‘reprocesses’ these images onto canvas, using oil, acrylic, and even ‘flock’ in a unique, pixilated dot style of painting that has a tough-edged street quality. Conceptually, de Jong’s paintings ‘stake their oppositional claim … against the...more