So my running buddy Evie has started doing a little art project, named as above and linked here
I jokingly said I would critique one of her new pieces, so here is a slightly not to be taken to seriously Haphazard review of this piece. (This image is missing some detail to see the piece as intended go via her website.)
This piece feels like a collision between bureaucracy and absurdity, and that tension is where it really works.
The rigid spreadsheet header (“What / For / Amount / Status”) sets up a formal, transactional frame. It’s all order, all control. But beneath that structure, the image slips into something stranger: black negative space, a floating “Paper,” a bright yellow “1,000,000,” and the blunt red “Stolen.” The system is neat, the meaning isn’t.
The mirrored figures leaning inward create a visual arch that pulls your eye straight to the centre. They almost ceremoniously present the million, as if it’s a prize or a problem. Their symmetry gives the piece balance and tension, like something’s about to move.
The colour choices do a lot of heavy lifting. The background feels secretive, maybe even complicit. The yellow number is loud and unapologetic, wealth as spectacle. And that red “Stolen” doesn’t whisper; it lands. Urgent. Accusatory. No room to misread it.
What’s interesting is the clash: institutional order above, emotional charge below. A spreadsheet trying to contain something that clearly spills beyond its cells. That friction, clean grid versus moral mess, is where the piece holds its energy.
Overall, it reads like a dark, slightly absurd commentary on value and accountability. Structured on the surface. Unsettled underneath.
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