After the 1985 John Adams opera of the same name, original cover art direction and design by Drenttel Doyle Partners, featuring a Mao Tse-tung propaganda poster from the Leslie Gill Collection. Chinese factory painters are part of the Collective’s process, so a game of artistic telephone ensues, whereby the painters work from a digital file, never seeing the source imagery before it has been altered. Painting an unflattering image of Emperor Mao is a crime of sedition in China, making this piece a revolutionary act committed by brush.

Exhibited at Indy MOCA in 2014, and Houston Museum of Drawing (June-December 2016). Ships Rolled.