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2024
8 × 12 in.
Acrylic on Canvas
Sell Your Soul is a fake advertisement for the worst job opportunity imaginable. A smiling businessman with devil horns promises you the chance to “earn some extra money,” but the fine print makes the actual deal pretty clear. Sell your soul, get paid, and keep playing the game.
I wanted it to look like one of those advertisements that makes something terrible sound completely normal. The guy is smiling. He is wearing a suit. There is a giant dollar sign. Everything about him is supposed to make the offer feel legitimate, even though the phone number literally ends in 666.
There is definitely some truth underneath the joke. We spend so much of our lives working for money. Sometimes you sacrifice your time, freedom, relationships, happiness, or pieces of yourself just to earn enough money to keep participating in life. You work so you can afford to live, and then realize how much of your life you traded away working.
The line “We pay so you can play” is probably the most important part to me. Money gives us access to experiences, possessions, housing, food, travel, and basically everything else society has decided requires a price. The question is how much of yourself you are willing to exchange for it.
And of course there are no refunds.
Once you sell a piece of your life, you cannot buy that time back.
2024
8 × 12 in.
Acrylic on Canvas
Sell Your Soul is a fake advertisement for the worst job opportunity imaginable. A smiling businessman with devil horns promises you the chance to “earn some extra money,” but the fine print makes the actual deal pretty clear. Sell your soul, get paid, and keep playing the game.
I wanted it to look like one of those advertisements that makes something terrible sound completely normal. The guy is smiling. He is wearing a suit. There is a giant dollar sign. Everything about him is supposed to make the offer feel legitimate, even though the phone number literally ends in 666.
There is definitely some truth underneath the joke. We spend so much of our lives working for money. Sometimes you sacrifice your time, freedom, relationships, happiness, or pieces of yourself just to earn enough money to keep participating in life. You work so you can afford to live, and then realize how much of your life you traded away working.
The line “We pay so you can play” is probably the most important part to me. Money gives us access to experiences, possessions, housing, food, travel, and basically everything else society has decided requires a price. The question is how much of yourself you are willing to exchange for it.
And of course there are no refunds.
Once you sell a piece of your life, you cannot buy that time back.