Daring, controversial and ambitious, Payne's latest social
satire is a commentary
on hot topics ranging from
consumerism to racism to overpopulation to climate change, much of what it is trying to say needing to be said.
Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists» focus
on commodities and
consumerism began as
satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in «brand - new» types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance.