Crypto Craze

DETAILS Title: 'Crypto Craze' Year: 2021 Dimensions: 78 x 55 inch / 200 x 140 cm Medium: oil on canvas ABOUT In Crypto Craze, a dark architectural opening — suggestive of a data center or subterranean vault — functions as a contemporary goldmine: a portal into the invisible infrastructures of digital capital. The threshold becomes both literal and symbolic, marking the descent into an economy defined by abstraction and speculation. Two male figures occupy this space in quiet contrast. One, dressed in a formal suit, appears poised to enter the digital depths — embodying the labor and technical rigor required to extract value from immaterial systems. The other, clad in leisurewear, stands in anticipation, his posture conveying expectation rather than effort. Together, they form an archetypal pairing: builder and beneficiary, labor and passive accumulation. As in much of de Meijer’s practice, the figures represent structural roles rather than individuals. Crypto Craze reflects on the evolving dynamics of work, reward, and visibility within technologically mediated economies. The composition invites reflection on how digital systems reconfigure notions of effort, authorship, and entitlement — exposing the widening divide between those who construct the architecture of wealth and those who profit from its surface. THEMES Digital Capital · Power · Inequality · Speculation · Labor AVAILABILITY Available for institutional exhibition and private acquisition. Currently located in New York City.