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Ryan Alicea
Sick is The Pig, 2025
Color pencils
5.5 × 8.5 inches
This piece is a social commentary of the wealthiest, greed, and how greed equals sickness the words written on the piece are a poem that 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.” It takes inspiration from Basquiat and represents my own feelings of resentment to the one percent that stomps over the rest of the 99 percent and it’s kind of like a table or a tail to one people to watch their own greed or it will make them as 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 of the wealthiest, greed, and how greed equals sickness the words written on the piece are a poem that 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.” It takes inspiration from Basquiat and represents my own feelings of resentment to the one percent that stomps over the rest of the 99 percent and it’s kind of like a table or a tail to one people to watch their own greed or it will make them as sick as this piggy.
—Ryan, 12th grade