The Estate Painting

A painting about money. The image of the eyes of The Queen from a Twenty Pound Note is made solely from the quotes of someone living on the breadline on a London sink estate. The letters slowly start to disintegrate the more desperate the story becomes. The 'text image' is pierced by abstract shapes metaphoric of shards of broken glass and London's newest symbol of wealth The Shard. The green is representative of money as well as envy. This is the text that makes up the image: WE MOVED TO THIS ESTATE FIVE YEARS AGO ITS A DUMP THE FIRE ENGINES AND THE POLICE ARE ALWAYS ROUND NEARLY EVERY NIGHT WE HAD PRAM SHEDS BUT YOU COULD NEVER USE THEM THERE WERE ALWAYS FIRES IN THEM PEOPLE WERE USING MINE AS A DUMP FOR NICKED STUFF I FOUND A TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINE IN THERE ONCE THE WORST PROBLEM WHEN WE FIRST MOVED IN WAS THE BREAK INS THE FRONT DOORS ARE A PIECE OF CAKE ALL YOU NEED IS A PLASTIC CARD TO OPEN THE LOCK WE WERE BROKEN INTO SIX TIMES IN THREE YEARS TWICE WE DISTURBED THEM MY TEN YEAR OLD FOUND THEM EVER SINCE THEN THE GIRLS HAVE BEEN REALLY NERVOUS IN THE NIGHT THEY LEAVE THEIR DOOR OPEN SO I CAN HEAR THEM IF THEY CALL ME ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CHILDREN NEEDED A LOT OF CLOTHES ONE OF THEM LOST A SHOE IN THE MARKET AND I COULDNT FIND IT SO THAT WAS A NEW PAIR THAT WAS NEEDED I WENT TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TO ASK FOR CLOTHES BUT THEY WOULDNT GIVE ME A THING WHEN THEY REFUSED THAT I SAT DOWN AND CRIED WERE GETTING LOW NOW WE’VE GOT FOOD FOR TODAY BUT THERES NONE FOR TOMORROW LAST WEEK WE RAN OUT OF MONEY FOR THE ELECTRIC METER WE HAD TO HUNT ROUND THE HOUSE FOR PENNIES TO MAKE UP FIFTY PENCE THIS WEEK I STARTED THINKING OF THINGS I COULD SELL

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 51.2 H x 1.8 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.