Artist Per Ove Sleen says he has no idea what he means by Code Zebra, his artwork depicting a blood-spattered zebra that has fused with a barcode.
I would propose that the work represents the commercialization and commoditization of wild animals, murdered and assimilated into a commercial product development cycle.
Code Zebra may be open to interpretation, but I looked into the specifics of the numbers appearing in the barcode and found that this barcode is a "Random Weight UPC." According to UPCdatabase.com Random Weight UPC codes are used for pricing items. If that is the intent of the artist's use of the UPC code then Code Zebra would appear to be selling for 873.94 in whatever unit of currency one might choose. It may also be that the barcode in Code Zebra represents the costs associated with assimilating a zebra into commerce.
The t-shirt, as you can see, sells for US$28.93.
