TIME!

he oil painting of ‘TIME!’ was the inception of the ‘Broken Capitalism’ art series by Mihov, which has been exhibited at Hatch Art Project and UBS Singapore, as well as featured in the likes of Mensfolio and Forbes.

This unique work is an animation of TIME! with the music from jaye funks' music video 'How much is your life worth?'. The NFT is a commemoration piece unlocked by a collector who has collected both original works of the NFT of TIME! and the oil painting.

The work addressed directly the fact that our capitalistic society has assigned monetary values to everything and all, including non-monetary concepts such as life or time, which the artist also sees as interchangeable. Time is no longer seen as ‘the form of inner sense’ in the human experience, but as an objective external variable. This has led to not only monetizing our relationship to time, with concepts such as interest rates for example, but to also establishing our entire basis for how we manage time, which is now fully focused on that monetization aspect. Time and its subversion into a purely one dimensional variable, much like capital, has therefore also brought upon a single dimensional society.

Therefore ‘TIME!’ also highlights the tendencies of our consumerist society to fall in the trap of investing entire life-times into the pursuit of wealth for pure consumerism. The piece toys with the exuberance and flamboyance of excess. The baroque elements are stylistically similar to both the artist’s former work ‘Carnival in the Worst of Times’ and analogous to the prints used in brands such as Versace and Hermès, which are arguably the propellers of our cult with luxury consumption. The physical version of the artwork is also covered in thousands of broken glass shards, which can be seen sparkling under light and are expressed in the animation of the work as well.

The feature in jaye's music video can be seen on the likes of YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vX_LQIooMA

More about the music of Jaye Funk: ​Taking the art of music videos to another level, jaye has consistently hit over 1 million views with his music videos, notably for Dejavu and ADHD, the latter being released as a choose-your-own-adventure style interactive video. jaye’s latest release unveils another innovative music video, produced by Bless7Up for both tracks on his EP, in which his wife, Nicholette Pang, acts alongside him. The music video tells the story of a post-pandemic dystopia in which the only escape from the darkness of constant death is a virtual world—the meta-verse.