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Isis Carey

Eat The Rich

Painting
2024
Tinted Gesso, tinted charcoal, egg tempera, imitation Tyrian purple (PB29 [Lapis Lazuli], PB15:1, PV16, PV15), imitation gold leaf on handmade cradled Masonite panel.
18x24"
Eat the rich, tax the rich, abolish the rich, throw them in the ocean with pockets full of rocks. We don't need the 1%, the 1% needs us. Hopefully my tits will sell the message to those who have earplugs in.This piece contains a hopefully accurate imitation tyrian purple in a nod to how the colour purple was, just by price, reserved for royalty.

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