153 x 137 cm
WIFI Be Thy Name
WIFI Be Thy Name
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Product Details:
- Title: WIFI Be Thy Name
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year created: 2025
- Dimensions: 153 (W) x 137 (H) x 2,5 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, shipped rolled
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
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✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the Artwork:
Wi-Fi Be Thy Name is a large-scale original mixed-media painting by contemporary artist Kristin Kossi, exploring modern-day worship in an age shaped by technology, consumerism, luxury and constant digital connection.
Drawing on the visual language of religious iconography and contemporary Pop Art, the work replaces traditional symbols of faith with the new objects of devotion: Wi-Fi, algorithms, money, status and digital culture. Familiar characters, provocative text and layered urban gestures collide across the canvas, creating a chaotic reflection of a society in which attention itself has become a form of currency.
Inspiration Behind the Artwork
A glowing phrase burns above Him in digital scripture:
“Wi-Fi be thy name.”
Not a prayer — a punchline.
The new holy word, beamed straight from the cloud.
We’ve traded spirit for signal, devotion for dopamine. The algorithm becomes God, and worship begins to look suspiciously like a screen refresh.
In this twisted second coming, God doesn’t descend from the heavens — He scrolls in, draped in the symbols and contradictions of contemporary culture.
His gold medallion reads:
“Show me your NFT scam.”
A relic from a digital gold rush where speculation, hype and belief became increasingly difficult to separate.
At His feet floats a black Amex:
“Swipe for salvation.”
Beside it, a pile of cash declares:
“In cash we trust.”
Money, technology and luxury take the place once occupied by traditional symbols of faith. Even salvation appears to have acquired a price tag.
Donald Duck looks on in disbelief. Bart Simpson hovers at the edge of the scene, euphoric and overwhelmed another familiar figure absorbed into the spectacle.
Wi-Fi Be Thy Name does not offer an answer or deliver a sermon. It uses satire to question what contemporary society chooses to worship and what happens when connection, consumption and status begin to resemble belief.
What is the price of salvation when everything has become a commodity?
The world is yours...
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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.