art > all that whirled's a stage [a personal mandollar] (2012)
all that whirled's a stage [a personal mandollar]
2012
demonetised hyperinflation banknotes (ZWR $1,160,478,201,753,740) and acrylic medium on paper
76cm x 56cm
| count | denomination | value (ZWR) | Pick | click for image… |
| 48 | 20 trillion | $960,000,000,000,000 | P89 |  |
| 20 | 10 trillion | $200,000,000,000,000 | P88 |  |
| 41 | 10 billion | $410,000,000,000 | P85 |  |
| 30 | 1 billion | $30,000,000,000 | P83 |  |
| 71 | 500 million | $35,500,000,000 | P82 |  |
| 27 | 100 million | $2,700,000,000 | P80 |  |
| 17 | 100 thousand | $1,700,000 | P75 |  |
| 15 | thousand | $15,000 | P71 |  |
| 72 | five hundred | $36,000 | P70 |  |
| 14 | hundred | $1,400 | P69 |  |
| 67 | twenty | $1,340 | P68 |  |
| 422 | $1,160,478,201,753,740 |
Read: Wikipedia's article on Banknotes of Zimbabwe
Finalist, 61st Blake Prize (2012).
Browse: Online Gallery of the 2012 Finalists
Read: Article on Arts Hub (26 September 2012)
Read: Article on news.com (26 September 2012)
It began with a search for Truth…
on which I woke to a world full of ubiquitous objects demanding attention…
objects that when given back their voice made clear this inner journey [fully sic] through countless nothings leads to an empty stage…
on which we act to live in a world, alive.
*sorry, all the links are now dead.
Exhibited as part of Show Us Your Bits & Pieces, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown, April 11- 28, 2013.
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