"#2: Waiting (the perversion of the American dream)"

Lotto mentality, gambling, litigiousness, get rich quick schemes, the stock market.   The insidious introduction of systematized luck into the American dream.

This painting shows a traditional symbol of craftiness and cunning, the fox, waiting by a rabbit hole for the grand prize to appear.   The ground has been cut away and we see there is nothing in the den.   The emaciated fox is surrounded by apples and the painting is surrounded by a wheel of fortune on which there are no numbers.   The wheel spins in either direction.