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I WANT TO BE RICH
MIXED MEDIA / MOTION
Embossing on aluminium foil — originally a disposable food tray.
This poster is about wanting to break free from a world without working social mobility, where climbing up from the bottom is extremely hard.
It is embossed on foil from a disposable food tray, a symbol of poverty. Yet despite this material background, the embossed shapes reveal the attributes of wealth: tennis, money, a diamond tennis bracelet.
I want to be rich !!!, 2025. Digital poster, 70 × 100 cm.
In the corners: classic Monopoly figurines in the shape of sheep. Monopoly is a game of chance and wealth, but to take part, you have to pay a price. The sheep becomes the sacrificial lamb.
02 / What I had
What I had: coins, beads, chains, a hole punch, a tiny tennis racket.
And a lot of patience. Embossing by hand.
Before: a foil food tray.
What I had: a foil food tray. And a lot of patience.
The tray is disposable, a symbol of poverty. Opened out and pressed by hand, it fills with tennis rackets, coins and bracelets.
After: the tray, embossed.
03 / Close up
Tennis.
“I want to be rich !!!” Direct, almost childlike, but also desperate.
Money, pressed into the ribbed wall. Punched holes along the rim.
Nothing is hidden: ribbed walls, folded rims, the creases of cheap foil. The wealth exists only as an imprint.
04 / The surface
The top of the poster: the tray’s walls, cut and fanned out around the centre.
05 / Variations
Test version: a photograph at the centre.
Lower corner: a Monopoly sheep beside the tray’s cut fringe.
In a test version, the centre held a photograph instead of the slogan: a child with a tennis racket.
It captures both a dream and a critique: the tension between aspiration and the harsh reality of blocked opportunities.
Technique: Embossing on aluminium foil
Format: Digital poster, 70 × 100 cm, 300 dpi
Year: 2025
Mixed media / Motion
2025
I wantto berich
Embossing on aluminium foil — originally a disposable food tray.
I want to be rich !!!, 2025. Digital poster, 70 × 100 cm.
This poster is about wanting to break free from a world without working social mobility, where climbing up from the bottom is extremely hard.
Up close
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“I want to be rich !!!” Direct, almost childlike, but also desperate.
It is embossed on foil from a disposable food tray, a symbol of poverty. Yet the embossed shapes reveal the attributes of wealth: tennis, money, a diamond tennis bracelet.
Details
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The slogan.
Tennis.
Money, pressed into the ribbed wall.
A Monopoly sheep, in the corner.
In the corners: classic Monopoly figurines in the shape of sheep. Monopoly is a game of chance and wealth, but to take part, you have to pay a price. The sheep becomes the sacrificial lamb.
What I had
02
A foil food tray. And a lot of patience.
The tray is disposable, a symbol of poverty. Opened out and pressed by hand, it fills with tennis rackets, coins and bracelets.
Coins, beads, chains, a hole punch, a tiny tennis racket.
Embossing by hand. Video.
Before
A foil food tray, opened out flat.
After
The same tray, embossed: rackets, coins, bracelets.
The surface
03
Nothing is hidden: ribbed walls, folded rims, the creases of cheap foil. The wealth exists only as an imprint.
The top of the poster
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The tray’s walls, cut and fanned out around the centre.
Variations
04
In a test version, the centre held a photograph instead of the slogan: a child with a tennis racket.
Test and detail
Swipe →
Test version: a photograph at the centre.
Lower corner: a Monopoly sheep beside the cut fringe.
It captures both a dream and a critique: the tension between aspiration and the harsh reality of blocked opportunities.
Technique
Embossing on aluminium foil
Format
Digital poster, 70 × 100 cm, 300 dpi
Year
2025
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