Ipsa Rex

Archival Print on Hahnemuhle Rice Paper.

Measures: L15” x W23”

Cessante ratione legis, cessat lex ipsa — when the reason for a law ceases, the law itself ceases. The principle that when the grounds that gave rise to a law cease to exist, the law itself ceases to exist.

“You have 2.3 million of our fellow Americans behind bars — it’s the largest prison population on the face of the planet. Many are there for nonviolent drug crimes including possession of marijuana at a time that more than half the states have legalized or decriminalized it.”

— Beto O’Rourke