Artist Statement
“My art is usually social and political regardless of who is in the White House, but my concerns and frustrations are amplified by the election of Donald Trump. I joked while Trump was campaigning that his slogan should be "Manifest Density," a parody of "Manifest Destiny," which was an embarrassingly egotistical pronouncement by rich white men that it was God's desire for them to conquer ocean to ocean in the territory that would become the United States. Trump appealed to an uninformed electorate who looked for scapegoats and were driven by most likely one or more of the dark impulses listed
About This Print
Obey With Caution (Letterpress) is a Shepard Fairey letterpress print, 10 x 13 inches, on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges, published by Obey Giant in a numbered edition of 300 and signed by the artist. It carries an Obey publishing chop in the lower left corner. Fairey created it as the second of two versions made at the same time as No Future, because he could not decide which he preferred. The print lists dark human impulses Fairey wants excluded from the future, framed by his post-2016-election statement urging a move forward rather than backward.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 250.0. Observed range 100.0–2006.0. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-22. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.