71 x 71 cm
Built to be free (Autonomy)
Built to be free (Autonomy)
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Product Details:
- Title: Built to be free
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year created: 2026
- Dimensions: 71 x 71 cm x 3 cm
- Style: Pop Art, Graffiti Art
- Signature: Signed by the artist on reverse
- Condition: 1/1 Original painting
- Medium: Acrylic, spray paint, collage, oil stick on paper
- Framing: Unframed original artwork on canvas, ready to hang
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
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✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the Artwork:
Built to Be Free (Autonomy) marks the beginning of Kristin Kossi’s Sovereign Series — a body of work exploring what comes after success.
For years, Kossi’s pop art celebrated the visual language of ambition: champagne, money, and the thrill of the win. In this new chapter, the narrative shifts from accumulation to autonomy.
In this powerful composition, Scrooge McDuck stands firmly on open land, surveying a vast horizon. Beneath his feet, architectural blueprints, land contours, and symbolic gold elements merge into the landscape — suggesting the transformation of wealth into something more permanent: territory, freedom, and control over one’s own time.
The modern mountain structure in the background represents a retreat from noise and excess — a place where success is no longer measured by display, but by independence.
Rendered in Kossi’s bold pop language while introducing deeper symbolism and grounded tones, the work balances playful cultural iconography with a more mature reflection on achievement.
Built to Be Free (Autonomy) invites the viewer to consider the ultimate evolution of ambition: not just building wealth, but building a life that answers to no one.
Artist Thoughts:
With the Sovereign Series, I started to think about what actually happens after success.
For many years my work explored the visual language of ambition — money, champagne, luxury symbols, the excitement of winning. But over time I realized that for many self-made people, success is only the first chapter. At some point the focus shifts. It is no longer about proving something to the world.
It becomes about freedom.
Built to Be Free (Autonomy) reflects that moment of transition. The moment when success stops being about accumulation and begins to transform into independence.
Instead of placing Scrooge McDuck inside a vault of coins, I placed him on open land. The coins beneath him are no longer chaotic; they start to integrate into the ground, turning into plans, territory and structure. Wealth becomes something that supports freedom rather than something that needs to be displayed.
For me, the real luxury of success is not status — it is autonomy.
The ability to choose how you live, where you are, and what you build next.
This piece reflects that idea: the shift from chasing success to owning your life.
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Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Free shipping included. Shipping usually takes 3 to 8 days. Double bubble wrapped inside cardboard box. Return is possible within 14 day withdrawal period, starting on the day you receive the creation.
Guaranty
Guaranty
Original work delivered with a certificate of authenticity by Kristin Kossi.
My work explores freedom in its many forms through pop culture, ambition, nature and the choices that shape the way we live. In my Pop Art, familiar characters and cultural symbols become a language for exploring success, money, love, independence and the contradictions of contemporary life. Icons such as Scrooge McDuck, Mr. Monopoly, Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson are removed from their familiar narratives and placed into new ones sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, but always reflecting something about the world we live in and what we choose to value. Alongside this, my abstract work has evolved through a closer connection to nature. Living and working between wild landscapes in South Africa has shifted my perspective from the symbols of success toward something more elemental — land, time, movement, solitude and the freedom that comes from living closer to nature. What connects these seemingly different bodies of work is a continuing search for freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to question. Freedom to change. And ultimately, freedom to live life on your own terms. I believe art can shift perspective. For me, creativity is not only a way of making images, but a way of understanding life — and continually redefining what truly matters.