Pine Box Keno with Tired Pussy

Pine Box Keno with Tired Pussy 

Artist 

Aaron Sheppard

25 x 53 x 3 inches

Oil, Acrylic, Resin, Cigarette on Canvas with Carved Wood Elements (Framed)

About the Artwork 

“Pine Box Keno with Tired Pussy” is a raw, unapologetic portrait of addiction, apathy, and the absurdity of routine escape. Rendered with a mix of dark humor and unsettling tenderness, the piece stages a figure reclined in her self-made shrine—a pine box casino altar—lit only by the flickering promises of neon jackpots. Numbers litter the scene like a patchwork shroud, forming the quilt of her coffin, each digit a failed prayer or fading thrill.

Her body, worn and still, is locked in ritual. An arthritic finger, mid-air and aching, hovers with purpose over a screen that demands nothing and offers even less. There’s no salvation here, no tragedy either—just the slow, looping grind of habit. She isn’t mourning her losses; she’s multiplying them. Doubling down is her religion. The outside world—the sun, the seasons, the measure of real time—has dissolved, replaced by a permanent twilight where dreams are bought for pennies and lost in seconds.

This piece doesn’t ask for pity. It dares you to watch. To question where the line is between comfort and coffin, between thrill and resignation, between life and whatever comes after the jackpot.

Price: $5,000