Making Money, Making Art (2026)

An ongoing collection of original artworks about what it means to be an artist making a living in the age of AI.

The title holds three ideas: making art, making a living, and going to work. Every piece starts with a hundred-dollar bill, the most familiar symbol of value there is. Over it I work by hand in acrylic crayon: a star, a heart, a smile, a flag, a wash of green. The bill is printed, flat and repeatable. The marks on top are slow, uneven, and impossible to copy exactly.

That gap is the subject. Work used to mean time and effort, and money was how we measured it. Art was supposed to be the exception, made for its own sake and priceless by definition. Now a machine can make an image in seconds, and the old link between effort, value, and price no longer holds. If making is effortless, what are we paying for? If art is priceless, why does it need a price tag?

This collection doesn’t settle that. They sit inside the question. Each one is a hundred-dollar bill made by hand, by the artist, and then offered for sale. In other words, making money.

Mixed media on paper. Framed originals available in 40 × 30 in. and 11 × 10 in.