It's Not a Game
This jewelry set and sculpture is an expression of satirical rage over how housing is treated as a tool to extract maximum rents for hedge funds and investors. The depravity practiced by these soulless ghouls does not even begin to be captured in this work.
Beyond the explicit message of the game board, the artwork plays with themes of inflated value and perceived value by employing a "Tiffany" style box and red velvet cushion to hold jeweler that has little to no inherent value as jewelry. Weight was also added to the bottom of the box to give someone the sense of heaviness which people often associate with higher value.
The use of game pieces in the jewelry is a comment on how the housing hoarders and exploiters treat housing (a basic need and right) as a personal decoration.
The game board offers a satirical critique of the system that enables this to happen as well as individual pokes at particularly notorious areas, properties, or people. The content of the board is primarily reflective of Colorado places and references.
Price set at $100,000.00