GAWD’s 229th release, featuring a Hublot advertisement painted over with typography and asemic writing depicting the words “BUY MORE DIE ANYWAY. Fvck ‘em. Because you deserve it. You’re better. Get it. Be it. Flaunt it.”
PROCESS: Magazine ad distressed then photographed on iPhone. Imported to Procreate on iPad for painting and manipulation. Released as a simultaneous, multi-chain, 7-Day timed edition across ETH (Foundation), TEZ (Objkt) & SOL (Exchange) beginning 08/04/24.
FILE INFO: 3000x5000, 32 bit, 300 dpi, PNG file, 34.6 MB.
BIO: New York-based GenX artist GAWD grew up with the work of Haring and Warhol and a soundtrack of punk/hardcore music. With roots creating graffiti in the late 1990s followed by the Lowbrow Art movement - published in 2012 alongside other Pop Surrealist digital artists - GAWD adopted the pseudonym in 2014 creating evocative work that brings the street to the studio (and now the blockchain) through paint, typography, pop imagery, and punk sensibility. GAWD's repurposing of highbrow fashion and luxury imagery (serving as connective cultural tissue) colliding with snarky lowbrow typography fuels bold, brash social commentary with a nihilistic bent. Each work challenges us to question ourselves, the world around us, and our place in it.
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No AI was used in the creation of this artwork. #MADExHUMANS