80 x 80 cm
Water is the new gold
Water is the new gold
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Product Details:
- Title: Water is the new gold
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year created: 2026
- Dimensions: 80 x 80 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, oil stick on canvas
- 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:
Water is the New Gold captures a shift that is already happening — quietly, but inevitably.
For decades, wealth has been measured in money, gold, and material assets. But the definition of value is changing. What once felt abundant is becoming scarce. What we overlooked is becoming essential. In this work, Scrooge McDuck — the ultimate symbol of wealth — is confronted with a new reality.
Gold is no longer the only currency.
Water is.
The piece plays with contrast:
The familiar icon of excess meets a resource that cannot be manufactured, negotiated, or replaced.
Executed in bold acrylic layers, the artwork combines vibrant pop aesthetics with a more grounded, almost unsettling message. It questions our perception of wealth and challenges the viewer to reconsider what true value really is.
Because in the end, the most powerful assets are not always the ones we can count.
Artist Thoughts behind the artwork:
"For a long time, I’ve been painting about money, success, and the idea of wealth. But lately, I’ve been questioning that. What if we’ve been measuring value completely wrong?
Water is the New Gold came from that thought.
We chase numbers, we chase growth, we chase more.
But at the same time, the things that actually sustain life are becoming more fragile. Water is something we assume will always be there — until it’s not. In this piece, I wanted to place Scrooge in that tension. Not as someone who has it all figured out, but as someone facing a shift.
Because real wealth is changing. And maybe it’s time we start paying attention to what actually matters."
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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.