This animated queen of clubs card is an artifact of the project Let's Steal Some Art by Arynlei. It's appropriated from Queen of Clubs, from a Set of Piquet Cards, by Claude Fayolle (1800s). This piece has a run time of 15 seconds, loops seamlessly (including audio), and is at 4k resolution. It would be suitably displayed on a vertically mounted flatscreen TV or iPad.

About Let's Steal Some Art:

Creative theft is something people have a lot of hot opinions about, especially within the creative community, and understandably so. We can all imagine what it would feel like to have our hard work plagiarized. In these last few weeks, I've been intentionally stoking this hot topic fire, publicly, by creating and selling illustrations heavily referencing public domain works, documenting my process on TikTok, and engaging with both supporters and critics alike.

I have also been publicly critical of other forms of creative theft (copyright infringement, and stealing from living artists specifically). This has earned me additional, albeit ironic, criticism from people wondering why I'm "standing up for exploitive corporations" and hating on small businesses, insisting that I mind my own business and "chase [my] own bag". For the record - the small businesses I've criticized are those who sell fan art based on copyrighted material, those who sell branded merchandise without going through the proper licensing channels, ie: those who knowingly profit off of others' intellectual property.

My overall goal has been to broaden the conversation about creative theft on TikTok, a platform whose key features and format are designed to encourage appropriation, remixing, and creative sampling. As of 2/21/21, this ongoing piece of performance art has been seen by nearly 1.5 million viewers and inspired 18 derivative pieces of content (stitches and duets) in which others are also "stealing" public domain work. I'm genuinely thrilled with the discourse created so far.