Five principles. One closed system.
EBITART is a grammar, not a style. Every painting, photograph and worn object obeys the same five rules.
Capital is the medium.
Before paint, before pigment, before glass — there is capital. It moves people into rooms, lights into ceilings, and bodies into motion. EBITART does not depict capital. It is made of it.
Atmosphere outlasts the night.
A room is only smoke and light for a few hours. An image of that room can hold its temperature for a century. The work is the preservation of a temperature.
The image becomes an object.
Photography is sealed under epoxy. Paint is poured into resin. The image is given weight, edge and shadow. It stops being a window and becomes a thing on a plinth.
Repetition is belief.
The acronym is written again and again until it stops referring to earnings and starts referring to faith. EBITA. EBITA. EBITA. A balance sheet turned into a prayer.
Distribution is private.
Works are not listed. They are placed. The collector is selected as carefully as the medium. A small circle, a long memory, a closed ledger.
"We do not paint pictures of money.
We freeze money into pictures."
— OakMan, 2024