The Argument

Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas

48 x 48 in

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The Argument is a collaboration between two artists that stages disagreement through contrast, fragmentation, and competing visual languages. On the right, Jill Ford paints a figure that is broken apart and reassembled as an object of media. The body feels exposed, unstable, and literally shaped by an external gaze that reduces it to parts rather than a whole. On the left, Kyle Douglas, aka Steelo, employs a looser and more referential style, intensifying a sense of division and disagreement across the canvas.

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The work addresses both dissonance and commodification. Just as the body is objectified, the style itself is treated as a commodity, borrowed, repeated, and repackaged. The Argument treats every element as material that has been used before and will be used again, in a field where authorship is blurred and originality lies less in invention than in how images are cut, packaged, and sold.

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