Sick is The Pig

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Ryan Alicea
Sick is The Pig, 2025
Color pencils
5.5 × 8.5 inches

This piece is a social commentary on how greed equals sickness. The poem reads: “sick is the pig whose greed makes his stomach bulge out for no matter if it is money or food you will be inflated to your own sick demise DO NOT gorge on all the sweets and leave nothing with others as you will implode in self need demise.” Inspired by Basquiat and representing feelings of resentment toward the one percent that stomps over the 99 percent, this piece is a tale for people to watch their greed or it will make them sick as this piggy.

—Ryan, 12th grade

Ryan Alicea
Sick is The Pig, 2025
Color pencils
5.5 × 8.5 inches

This piece is a social commentary on how greed equals sickness. The poem reads: “sick is the pig whose greed makes his stomach bulge out for no matter if it is money or food you will be inflated to your own sick demise DO NOT gorge on all the sweets and leave nothing with others as you will implode in self need demise.” Inspired by Basquiat and representing feelings of resentment toward the one percent that stomps over the 99 percent, this piece is a tale for people to watch their greed or it will make them sick as this piggy.

—Ryan, 12th grade