Our hollow consumer culture

I’m curious to know whether Theo Macdonald and Isabella Dampney will be paid for their art work, which consists of an empty gallery with a broken window (Pair hope to shatter modern art myths, March 29).

If so, it seems that consumerism is indeed achieving its ultimate abstraction: the production and purchase of nothing.

Perhaps that is a good thing; the economy will be able to expand ad infinitum and climate destruction, which is mostly caused by the production of consumer goods, will be reined in at last.

It’s the perfect expression of the hollowness at the heart of our consumer culture.

JO MELLS Johnsonville