Print on aluminum, aluminum profiling
37 x 60 inches
2020
The imagery and text in this work is largely sourced from an internal SoftBank presentation about their vision for the future. Softbank's Vision Fund is arguably the dominant VC investment fund and is the world's largest tech investor at 100B$+. Their strategy is to "create platforms between demand and producers, take over 80%+ of the market, then dynamically price everything for profit".
Nearly all of the text and imagery is directly from their vision presentation, superimposed on itself to highlight the manic optimism, perplexing contradictions, and frightening mortal threats and consequences of our world. It's a view into how a multibillion dollar global corporation processes existentialism and imagines a future closer to the singularity. The only text not directly from their presentation is "One minute gone, the next one's mine" referenced from the late rapper XXX Tentacion, which I thought encapsulated the ferocity of our present future.
