Scrawled in urgent cerulean, this work lifts its own title directly from the pictorial field - a cloud, a dollar sign, and the declaration 'love is what we make' collapsing image and language into a single insistent surface. The move answers Basquiat's integration of word and symbol as co-equal pictorial units, where neither illustrates the other but both bear equal ontological weight. The looping orthography pulls against the diagrammatic clarity of the cloud form, staging a quiet argument about value, sentiment, and currency.
Scrawled in urgent cerulean, this work lifts its own title directly from the pictorial field - a cloud, a dollar sign, and the declaration 'love is what we make' collapsing image and language into a single insistent surface. The move answers Basquiat's integration of word and symbol as co-equal pictorial units, where neither illustrates the other but both bear equal ontological weight. The looping orthography pulls against the diagrammatic clarity of the cloud form, staging a quiet argument about value, sentiment, and currency.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery