WHY ISN'T LIFE LIKE THE MOVIES Two icons of desire — one from the silver screen, one from the glossy page — collide in a composition that feels both intimate and restless. The legendary beach embrace from From Here to Eternity and a 1965 Vogue cover featuring Jean Shrimpton are layered together, creating a new image that neither could be alone. A background figure looks on, overwhelmed — a stand-in for all of us who have ever measured our lives against the radiant, impossible standard of art and beauty. Jones, who spent years working alongside George Lucas before retreating to paint, understands better than most how powerfully moving images shape our longing. The question the title poses has no clean answer. That's precisely the point.