My art is about homo economicus
My art is about the Grumpy Cat Funko Pop!® I saw in Hot Topic®
My art is about the gen z interns running corporate Twitter® accounts
My art is about not knowing whether establishing an art style is a sign of artistic development or an act of personal branding
My art is about corporate personhood
My art is about Club Penguin® teaching me about conspicuous consumption
My art is about Ina Garten’s Spotify® playlists
My art is about always hanging out at the mall growing up
My art is about commodity fetishism
My art is about feeling pressured to exploit my queer trauma in my art
My art is about the “Which Fast Food Chain Are You?” Buzzfeed® quiz
My art is about wanting to take that Buzzfeed® quiz
My art is about the Basquiat-inspired backpack my peer bought at the Guggenheim gift shop
My art is about capitalist realism
My art is about a 16 year old that had a viral TikTok® of his mom farting and made merch
My art is about the board game Mall Madness
My art is about when there when everyone claimed to be a Samantha when really they were a Charlotte
My art is about the two-dimensionalizing of experience
My art is about the $50 picture at the end of a roller coaster
My art is about the slow and painful atrophy of the NEA
My art is about the Supreme® clothing brand
My art is about social capital
My art is about the drag industry
My art is about a rainbow cop car that read “policing with pride” on its hood
My art is about the tax deduction companies receive when they put their logo on something
My art is about Lil Tay
My art is about The Coldest Water®’s brand strategy
My art is about an employee that works 65 hours/weeks and then rewards themselves by buying a pair of patent leather booties from Amazon®
My art is about my childhood dream of working in a mall
My art is about how the The Wealth of Nations was the birth of economics as an academic discipline
My art is about Jeff Koons donating the idea of Bouquet of Tulips to the city of Paris and not the sculpture itself
My art is about how I can’t help but consider a conversations an exchange and not a shared moment
My art is about LuLaRoe® being the liberator of all women everywhere and not a pyramid scheme
My art is about the reduction of people to their productive and consumptive capacities
My art is about going to the mall to see and be seen
My art is about the existence of a marketing career
My art is about reality TV shows’ association with reality
My art is about that ugly corporate art style
My art is about Jackson Pollock’s Life Magazine spread in 1949
My art is about my brand and my brand is sort of about my art