Street vendors, peddlers, and panhandlers are often socially stigmatized and cast aside from the rest of society. Their presence is often characterized as a nuisance or as evidence of a perceived danger or indication that you are entering “the wrong side of town”. David Hammons’ work Bliz-aard Ball Sale, 1983 examines this notion in conjunction with the commodification of art and the reality of the art market as a ‘scam’. The work consists of Hammons standing near a blanket in the street selling neatly arranged snowballs in the dead of winter. The absurdity of selling something already so ubiquitous calls into the question the commodity culture surrounding art and its accessibility. This examination is therefore an attempt to draw attention to the exclusivity of the art world and fight back against it to open it to the public. Hammons employs the strategy of interjection to disrupt the everyday and thus slows down the viewer by giving them the agency to use their own perceptions of what is normal.