An edited video still of natural wood scenery with slot machines and casino architecture overlayed on top of the image

5000 More Years

To be on display in the Masur Museum River Galleries
Exhibition on view May 7 – July 18, 2026 

Public Reception: June 4th, 2026, 5:30pm – 7pm (Monroe Art Crawl)

About the Exhibition

Summer Emerald, better known as Salesforce Child, is an interdisciplinary artist based in remote northwestern Canada, where her practice is shaped by the tension between immersion in digital culture and the immediate disconnection that comes when she leaves her cabin, with cell service over an hour’s drive away.

Across painting, video, performance, writing, drawing, and social media, Emerald’s work speaks in an idiosyncratic yet immediately recognizable blend of corporate and devotional language. The work reflects the semiotic chaos of contemporary systems, imbued with the sense that what we have built is leaving us behind.

At the center of her practice is her alter ego Salesforce Child – a messianic figure explicitly voicing the implicit logics of the capitalist machine, who embodies the terminal point of algorithmic authority. Salesforce Child has appeared variously as a prophet, an extradimensional visitor, a charismatic leader,  and a corporeal embodiment of Salesforce.

Her teachings – a series of image-texts circulated through social media as meme-like doctrinal fragments, extend the project into the public sphere, incorporating elaborations from viewers. Her video and performance work is animated by the ecstasy of consumption and extraction and an impossible longing to merge with the deus in machina of capital itself.  Her paintings and drawings are speculative devotional images refracted through consumer and industrial aesthetics, producing visually striking scenes of figures that melt into sky and land, merging with the signs and symbols of corporate infrastructure. Together, these forms construct a somewhat fictional cosmology that feels simultaneously familiar and estranged.