My cat doesn't have a mortgage

Gromm’s 'My Cat Doesn’t Have a Mortgage' distills a particular kind of modern-day envy—the feline existence, free from financial anxieties, career pressures, or existential dread. Instead, it’s a world of instinct, of naps in the sun, of curiosity without consequence.

This painting, like its title, plays with contrast—chaotic mark-making meets controlled precision, vibrant swaths of colour crash into delicate details. The composition is both meditative and hyperactive, as if trying to capture the absurdity of living in a system that rewards burnout while the cat sleeps soundly, unimpressed.

Gromm’s work has always embraced contradiction—order and chaos, control and spontaneity. Here, he finds humour in the absurdity of economic survival, using his signature layering to create a dreamlike, almost digital aesthetic. The cat, untethered from the weight of capitalism, stares back. Smug.