Intention

Upon being given the prompt of "Beg, Borrow, and Steal," I promptly decided that I was going to give the impression that I was following the prompt as literally as possible to construct the narrative of the artist slightly unhinged. In this collage of assisted readymades lies the implication that the subject itself, posed in a logically impossible fashion, will do anything to satisfy such an artistic demand. The intention of the end result is to make the viewer uncomfortable-- as work involving appropriation ought to be. While most works we discussed in class subverted the idea of appropriation, "$400 / OBO" is intended not only to embrace appropriation as an obvious facet of the work, but also as a celebration of the task completed in the name of art with an actual emotional impact.