Philipp Hölke

Art

VENTURE CRAPITAL

A unicorn head on bruised purple, one horn up, with the pitch lettered beside it — chasing my pet, you need corn — capital as a cartoon that knows it is one.

A scraped purple-and-brown canvas with a large black-outlined unicorn head, square eyes and a striped horn, white hand-lettered lines reading yeah we like to think of ourselves as sparring partners and chasing my pet you need corn, with invest grow along the bottom.

A unicorn, drawn the way a child would if the child had sat through a pitch — square eyes, a striped horn, a snout like a socket — occupies most of a bruised purple field. The lettering does the glossary: sparring partners, pet, corn. Unicorn taken apart until it is a need and a joke at the same time.

Yeah we like to think of ourselves as sparring partners.

The title’s misspelling is the whole argument. Growth is scrawled along the bottom where a caption would go. The animal is what the money kept drawing.