This painting adopts a plan view, placing both artist and viewer in the position of a voyeur. At first glance, it seems to satirise the gallerist as a figure associated with money, but the gaze soon folds back on itself. The voyeur is not only the viewer standing before the work but also the artist who imagines the gallerist’s world as one of endless transactions. In doing so, the artist forgets that both are bound by the same logic of buying and selling, each anxious within the machinery of the market economy - nobody is spared from it. The painting’s imagined suitcase of money becomes a hallucination, a symbol of projection and fear. The gallerist, rather than counting cash, lies awake, absorbed in private worries. It is a self-portrait by proxy, a meditation on complicity and fatigue within an art world that cannot escape its own economy.