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Arlo Sinclair, Straight Outta Computer: WAGMI - 3.5” Black, 2025

Arlo Sinclair

Straight Outta Computer: WAGMI - 3.5” Black, 2025
Oil on canvas
Signed on verso + COA
1/1 Unique
Unframed: 100 cm (W) x 100cm (H)
Framed: 110cm (W) x 110cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Series: Painting
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In Straight Outta Computer: WAGMI (3.5” Black), Arlo Sinclair fuses hip-hop iconography, crypto-culture slogans, and obsolete technology into a single satirical artifact. The work depicts a battered black 3.5” floppy...
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In Straight Outta Computer: WAGMI (3.5” Black), Arlo Sinclair fuses hip-hop iconography, crypto-culture slogans, and obsolete technology into a single satirical artifact. The work depicts a battered black 3.5” floppy disk, its peeling label rebranded with the unmistakable typography of the “Straight Outta Compton” logo—here transformed into “Straight Outta Computer.” Along its edge, the handwritten scrawl “WAGMI?”—short for the crypto-world mantra *We’re All Gonna Make It—adds a note of both optimism and irony.

Sinclair’s meticulous realism elevates the damaged disk into an object of cultural archaeology, its creases, scratches, and faded surfaces recalling the fragility of storage media that once embodied digital progress. By overlaying it with slogans drawn from music, meme culture, and blockchain hype, he collapses disparate cultural timelines: the rise of gangsta rap in the late 1980s, the heyday of floppy disks in the 1990s, and the speculative frenzy of Web3 in the 2020s.

The humor is undercut by a sharp critique. The phrase “Straight Outta Computer” lampoons both nostalgia and obsolescence, while the uncertain “WAGMI?” destabilizes the blind optimism of speculative culture. Together, they underscore Sinclair’s central theme: the instability of technological and cultural value systems, forever shifting between hype, decline, and reinvention.

As with his broader 2025 series, Sinclair appropriates mass culture with Pop Art irreverence while embedding contemporary commentary in the details. *Straight Outta Computer: WAGMI* reminds viewers that cultural symbols, no matter how bold or seemingly permanent, eventually decay—leaving behind only fragments, fossils, and the stories we attach to them.

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