Maxwell's Demon [End Time]
![Maxwell's Demon [Hope, after George Frederic Watts], steel pins and velvet on board, 74” x 94 ”](/sources/html/photo.gif "Maxwell's Demon [Hope, after George Frederic Watts], steel pins and velvet on board, 74” x 94 ”")
Maxwell's Demon [Hope, after George Frederic Watts], steel pins and velvet on board, 74” x 94 ”
Hope by George Frederic Watts is Barack Obama's favorite painting. In 1990, Obama was captivated by a sermon delivered by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his controversial former pastor. The focus of the sermon was Hope, Watts' melancholy painting of a hunched and blindfolded girl who sits atop a globe and tentatively plucks at a single string on her crude wooden lyre. Many of Watts’ contemporaries thought the painting would be more appropriately titled “despair".
![Maxwell's Demon [End Time] installation, Trois Gallery, Atlanta USA, 2009](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-end-time-installation-trois-gallery-atlanta-usa-2009-s_39.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [End Time] installation, Trois Gallery, Atlanta USA, 2009")
![Maxwell's Demon [Strong's Concordance], steel pins and velvet on board, 94” x 35”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-strongs-concordance-steel-pins-and-velvet-on-board-94-x-35-s_11.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [Strong's Concordance], steel pins and velvet on board, 94” x 35”")
![Maxwell's Demon [The Slipper Tongue, after W. H. D. Koerner], steel pins & rubber on board, 94” x 74 ”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-the-slipper-tongue-after-w-h-d-koerner-steel-pins-rubber-on-board-94-x-74-s_5.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [The Slipper Tongue, after W. H. D. Koerner], steel pins & rubber on board, 94” x 74 ”")
![Maxwell's Demon [Hope, after George Frederic Watts], steel pins and velvet on board, 74” x 94 ”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-hope-after-george-frederic-watts-steel-pins-and-velvet-on-board-74-x-94-s_8.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [Hope, after George Frederic Watts], steel pins and velvet on board, 74” x 94 ”")
![Maxwell's Demon [Bull], steel pins and velvet on board, 94” x 74 ”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-bull-steel-pins-and-velvet-on-board-94-x-74-s_9.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [Bull], steel pins and velvet on board, 94” x 74 ”")
![Maxwell's Demon [The Towers], steel pins & rubber on board, 41” x 45”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-the-towers-steel-pins-rubber-on-board-41-x-45-s_4.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [The Towers], steel pins & rubber on board, 41” x 45”")
![Maxwell's Demon [The Terrorist], steel pins and velvet on board, 34” x 30”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-the-terrorist-steel-pins-and-velvet-on-board-34-x-30-s_3.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [The Terrorist], steel pins and velvet on board, 34” x 30”")
![Maxwell's Demon [The Flood], steel pins & rubber on board, 45” x 41”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/maxwells-demon-the-flood-steel-pins-rubber-on-board-45-x-41-s_7.jpg "Maxwell's Demon [The Flood], steel pins & rubber on board, 45” x 41”")
![The artist and Maxwell’s Demon [The Slipper Tongue, after W. H. D. Koerner], steel pins and velvet on board, 94” x 74 ”](/maxwells-demon-end-time/the-artist-and-maxwells-demon-the-slipper-tongue-after-w-h-d-koerner-steel-pins-and-velvet-on-board-94-x-74-s_6.jpg "The artist and Maxwell’s Demon [The Slipper Tongue, after W. H. D. Koerner], steel pins and velvet on board, 94” x 74 ”")
