Screen Prints

The work addresses the spending spree of the US government on anything military related. In 2015 the government spent almost 600 billion US$ on Military. That is 54 % of all federal discretionary spending, compared to 3 % on social security, 3 % on science, 6 % on health and 6 % on education (National Priorities Project). At the same time, the national debt has exceeded 18 Trillion dollars in 2015 (Forbes). In the painting, a poor Uncle Sam is sitting on the world making little fighter jets looking like an old man feeding pigeons.

• silk screen print with hand-coloured globe (acryl) on 220 g/sm paper
• 29 x 21 cm
• limited edition of 50 copies; signed and numbered

… when your ipod only has 1 GB. Taking into perspective what really matters in our lives is sometimes hard to see. When you are surrounded by wealth one quickly forgets that big parts of the world are not that lucky, that there might be more important things than the choice of for example the music-playing device. This work does not describe a “first-world” problem. It also reflects on what people consider important, spending money on crap instead of taking care of themselves.

• silk screen print on 160 g/sqm paper
• 29 x 21 cm
• limited edition of 50 copies; signed and numbered