Whiskey for My Men 2021 digital rendering from ’Southern Charms’

In ‘Southern Charms’ Dongieux assembles Happy Meal figures into narrative vignettes, weaving together threads from his Southern upbringing, country songs, Mississippi delta blues, classic films, and southern etiquette teaching materials. The final works speak to a mythology within the American South. Ideals of justice and kinship glisten, while reckless abandon represents an Achilles' heel.

The works were exhibited March 2021 within a virtual recreation of the artist’s childhood home in Uptown New Orleans.