Copium Machine, 2024 Found object assemblage, paint on canvas.
Comissioned and shown at Opting Out at Verge Gallery.
Contemporary cope and archaic labour. Wojak as a hieroglyph for the everyman, the condensed image and symbol for the self in reaction. Idea of Copium as a natural response to the capitalist slog. This image in its shitty ms paint mass reposted glory as an idol, an altar, next to a dumb machine. A “machine”. Something that moves. A wheel, the most basic form of a mechanism. Simple machine. The futility of labour in a capitalist structure. Futility of life itself. Humour. Satire. Whatever.