The work is made after a series of images made by Jerry McMillan, who photographed Ed Ruscha from 1958 -1972.

The British artist Jonathan Monk (*1969) is known for a great sense of humor and masquerades shown in countless
playful references to famous artists - most notably Sol LeWit, the internationally famed icon of Minimalism. 
Jonathan Monk’s constantly recurring theme is the exploration of the relationship between authorship and originality.

It is part of his central artistic strategy that he uses other artist's material as his own by integrating it into his artworks. 
But Jonathan Monk's claim is always to keep a balance between dialogue and persiflage.

The Artist Covered in a Selection of Sol LeWitt Books (After Ed Ruscha)
takes up a photograph that showed the American artist Ed Ruscha in the identical pose covered by his own books.