BAKE A CAKE dresses her in the same material as the cake she is holding — the same beaded pink texture running from collar to hem, from icing to sleeve, until it is unclear where Martha Stewart ends and the product she built around her ends. A crown of large rose-cut gems sits on her head, more monarch than baker, while gold coins and bars are piled on top of the cake itself: the confection re-rendered as a balance sheet. The title is domestic and small; the imagery is not, and that gap is the actual subject. Stewart built a self-taught catering business into a media and retail empire, taking Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia public and becoming the first self-made female billionaire in the United States — then was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction, and lying to investigators over an insider trading case, and served five months in federal prison. The crown and the coins in this collage read less like triumph than like evidence: the same wealth that built the empire is what a jury eventually found her guilty of protecting. She rebuilt the brand afterward. The collage does not pretend that rebuilding erased what the money had already cost her.