Has the seduction of greed ever been more plainly put? Here, all is guile, all is sheen, the captivating image in the mirror.
The pervasive theme is overabundance, an offensive visual gluttony. Note the arcs, bedotted so as to resemble kingly ermine or heraldic gold; the solid circles—coins—at ordinal and cardinal points of the perimeter, the gaudy humps round as bulging pockets. And at its heart: an asymmetry that could only represent corruption, of the Soul, of Nature, of Possibility. The diagonal axis at the center reveals a structure incapable of stability, a spirit incapable of grace.
The coin is Man’s heaviest millstone.
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