“The rich only select from the heap what is most precious and agreeable. They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.”
An artwork that erases and overwrites itself gradually as more money is spent on it. This piece also looks different for each collector based on how many editions they own. Reload the page to see the changes.
Native format: 2000×2000 pixels (fullscreen mode is recommended)
Artist: Raphaël de Courville (@sableraph)
Released: August 2021
Note: this is an experimental piece that relies on the Hicdex API to function
