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Terms & Conditions (2025)
Steve Halay
USA
30x40in
Mixed media on canvas
This painting confronts the viewer with a frenetic blend of raw emotion, social commentary, and streetwise bravado. Against a vivid pink backdrop, two crudely rendered figures stand side by side—one with a jagged, toothy grin and the other wide-eyed and anxious. Thick black lines form their distorted expressions and loosely sketched bodies, evoking both childlike innocence and deep unease.
Scrawled across the canvas are phrases that add layers of meaning: “fuck bitches get money” looms across the top like a banner of defiance, while “I love hoes” and “me too honey” dominate the upper center, suggesting a performative exchange of desire or agreement. On the far left, “live now or die later” drives home a sense of urgency and recklessness. These words, paired with the crude figures and chaotic strokes, give the piece a confessional.
The work oscillates between humor and hostility, love and nihilism—reflecting a world where affection, survival, and identity collide in loud, unapologetic ways.