This is the very beginning stages of a collaboration for the “Art Lives!” exhibition next spring, in which pairs of artists around the state respond to the Kansas governor’s elimination of any public funding for the arts. Through my reworking of a “Great Book” – a single volume that includes both Machiavelli’s The Prince and Hobbes’ Leviathan – I make general references to art and the economy and to the transformational capabilities of art, as well as some specific references to the roles of Kansas Mennonites in art and culture. This is very much  a work in progress and I post a few photos here mainly for my collaborator’s benefit.