A child stands facing a street cart displaying missiles arranged like consumer goods, presented with the familiarity of an everyday market stall. A single red price tag hangs from the cart, transforming instruments of destruction into purchasable objects. In War for Sale, Mr Phantom exposes the commercialisation of conflict, where violence is packaged, marketed, and normalised through distance and abstraction. The child’s stillness contrasts sharply with the implied power of the weapons, underscoring the imbalance between those who consume war and those who inherit its consequences. The work confronts the ease with which devastation becomes transactional when removed from human cost.
