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In my jar is a ripped up one dollar bill. The bill is in exactly 100 pieces. I did this because things only truly have value when people put value on it.
I placed my jar in a tree, because money does not grow on trees, although we wish it did, and it is initially made from trees.
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Saw you guys this morning. I looked down from the Nat Gallery portico balcony and thought you were holding ice cubes and either making a curious political protest or engaged in commercial PR so I had to investigate and it was interesting; also a great use of public space. I was struck by the "same same same" jar, the lazy bones who just put a pound coin with a hidden 100 pennies in the jar, the large salt granules, the 100 drops of water looked like more than a 100 drops, and the pretty girl who had extracted 100 hairs from women on the tube (that must have been during the Saturday night last night of drinking party right?). Nice boundary breaking performance art meets found objects in jars! Enjoy London.
Not sure what the point of this piece is. Tearing up a $100 seems to have missed the point of the exercise. Even mentioning the word value seems to suggest that the artist holds a piece of paper marked by a government that assigns that value as something that should move the viewer. To me, that American dollar holds no value to me, so the message is lost.
This is my least favorite, although I applaud her participation in the attempt.
$100? Really?
What if the $100 were used to make difference in 100 people's lives and then capture the result?
Art with meaning AND social consciousness.
I applaud the effort.
I think the previous two comments missed the point that it was a ONE dollar bill, not a one hundred dollar bill. And I like the idea she had. Why is it that people place value on certain things in certain forms, but not in others? You couldn't buy anything with a $1 in one hundred pieces, but it's made of exactly the same things that the whole $1 is. There are so many other things, tangible and intangible, that are the same way. But why? What's the big difference? Should there be one?
is tearing up money illegal?
initially, the blurb under the picture stated that the bill was $100. It has since been corrected, that is why people referred to $100.
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