CASH CROP

CASH CROP

- Original Art work by Travis Love
- Rose gold leaf
- 20in X 30in - 1in width
- Frame not included

About: A mixed-media painting that confronts the economic foundations of American prosperity. The work depicts a bush of cotton, each cotton ball carefully highlighted with rose-gold leaf. The metallic glow symbolizes the immense wealth generated from cotton production and the rise of the United States as an economic power—wealth built in large part through the exploitation of labor.

The cotton imagery is set against coffee-stained paper layered with fragments of financial literacy notes and historical facts. These textured pages serve as both a visual archive and a call to reflection, connecting past systems of economic extraction to modern conversations about wealth.

By combining the symbolic “cash crop” of cotton with contemporary financial insight, the painting bridges history and the present. It invites viewers to consider how the profits of the past continue to shape today’s economy and how those same principles and practice have evolved over time.