Live Each Day As If It Were Yo
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About This Work
David Shrigley’s *Live Each Day As If It Were Yo* distils his signature deadpan wit into a sharply economical image-text proposition. Using deliberately unpolished linework and spare composition—hallmarks of Shrigley’s drawing practice—the work stages a collision between motivational cliché and abrupt truncation, turning self-help optimism into a meditation on language, failure, and contemporary attention spans. The hand-rendered immediacy amplifies its conceptual punch, foregrounding the artist’s interest in how meaning is constructed through tone as much as content. Culturally resonant in an era of slogans and algorithmic affirmation, this Shrigley artwork operates as both comic relief and critical mirror, inviting viewers to reconsider the rhetoric we live by.
About the Artist
David John Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Shrigley first came to prominence in the 1990s for his distinct line drawings, which often deal with witty, surreal and darkly h...
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