Jere Newton Jr’s hypnotic swirls of color propel you toward a higher consciousness.  With a belief that “Art is our poetry on how we see life,” he forgoes traditional depictions for more abstract renderings that verge on the emotional and spiritual.  His work enables you to break free from the obvious to perceive things in a new light.  Using mixed media and a computer, he stretches hermit crabs, Orcas, cats, and crowds of people beyond their normal shapes and sizes. Nevertheless, his digital photography takes on a painterly quality from his long, broad sweeps of blues, purples, and blacks.  Says the Mississippi-based artist: “Art is a mystic realm, and is related to God, I take no credit for my art, I’m essentially a channel, and some times I’m astonished at how my art turned out, and say my God did I do that?”