THIS GALLERY HAS BEEN SOLD OUT aka BE BASED BUY ART aka BLUE_PILLED RED PILLS aka THIRSTY GALLERINA Has a gallery ever been closed early because it has been entirely sold out? Besides basic reasons like lease cessation, gentrification, the death of the gallerist, the death of all artists all at once… What prompts will be typed into Chat GPT’s textbox requesting new works based on what has already been created and successfully sold? And who is going to notice pixelated sad emoji first, staring back at the blank request - resulting from the severe server crash due to some earthquake? Why not sell the half-empty sticker paper then? It’s the only thing that’s left. The red dot signals sale as the ultimate branding of the artwork as valuable and desirable. It resembles success within a competitive market, a notion of playing the game and winning. Ever since red dots came into existence, they have been integrated and leveraged within artworks themselves. (Is this called concept art? Is this called institutional critique? The kind of art where artists present witty ideas to a selected audience that gets it?) Maybe this artwork is so blue-pilled. Maybe quit before you have to. Enforce cessation. Accelerate the end. Before extinction hits hard.