Furia Fiat: Let there be fury (Ten Decrees #01)

THE PRINT

30x20 inches, drawn at 18,000 pixels across, which is 600 pixels per inch at this size. A picture with four hundred things happening in it is worth nothing at a resolution that hides three hundred of them, and that's the entire reason I work this big. The detail holds closer than your eye can resolve from across the room. This one has to be walked up to.

Limited edition of 10, signed and numbered, on Hahnemuehle German Etching 310gsm.

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THE CONCEPT

Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted Dulle Griet around 1563. A woman in armor marching into the mouth of hell to loot it, while the village behind her tears itself apart over nothing. Art historians have spent four and a half centuries arguing about whether he was mocking her.

In mine the mouth is behind her and she's walking out. Past the men crawling on a floor paved with coins, past the vault door lettered DEBT, toward the arch marked EXIT. She's carrying a blade and a bag, and she's already decided.

Fiat is Latin. It means let it be done. It isn't a kind of money, it's a grammatical mood: an order in the passive voice, so nobody has to be named as the one giving it. This is the first of ten decrees. There are over 30 words cut into objects in this picture, hidden throughout. VERIFY carved above a gate with an archer standing inside, arrow already nocked, aimed at whoever is reading it. TRU$T on a lit furnace with a dollar sign where the S should be. KNOWLEDGE on a board lying face up in the dirt beside a skull with dollar signs for eyes. Two matched towers, one lettered VERITAS and one MENDACIUM, same lattice, same platform ring, same engineering, built by the same contractor and holding the same thing up.

I'm not going to list the rest. Finding them is the work.

TEN DECREES

Ten of the most crowded and most furious paintings Bosch and Bruegel ever made, redrawn for the fiat age. One every two weeks, from August 29th to January 3rd, the Genesis Block anniversary. Nine of the titles are orders. The last one is ours. Better money, better world.