You Can’t Eat Money

This painting is a meditation on value, greed, and the fragile balance of nature.  The elevator becomes a symbol of ambition and ascent, yet inside its cage, life persists, roots, branches, birds, and fish weaving together in cycles of renewal.  Surrounding them, money, symbols of power, and human figures remind us of the forces that often define worth in narrow, material terms.

The work contrasts economic pursuit with ecological survival, asking viewers to reconsider what we choose to elevate.  Will we continue pressing the buttons of greed, or pause to nurture the living systems that sustain us?  True value lies not in accumulation, but in the flourishing of the natural world.

Prior Exhibitions:

The Jasper Project, Degenerate, Stormwater Studios, Columbia, SC

The Jasper Project, The Nook Gallery, Koger Center, Columbia, SC

The Jasper Project, The Meridian Gallery, Columbia, SC