Chod has done multiple pieces demonstrating a total disdain and unique dis-appreciation of money.
This new piece continues in that same theme. Chod just put up a giant installation stencil piece on Melrose that says 'None of This is Real'. The art piece is literally is made out of money, with over 500 single dollar bills of cold hard ca$h money went into the background of the piece itself.
The piece is like like a stripper fantasy~
Fascinating concept playing around with big money. Do we need this?
If you don't have any good ideas, at least you have shock value. I mean, I'm poor, so I'm shaking my head. But it's not my money, so who gives a fuck.
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Shock value is right. I am at a loss for words. One thing I can say is I like the message.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't need is another trust fund baby using his hourly allowance on so called street art. Instead of being so disgusted with them 500 smackers, why not go do something productive like feed the homeless and get yourself a lobotomy? Bet it gets ripped off and ends up on e-bay like his street signs. IMO just more hype and a shitty execution at shock value, should have used 100 dollar bills big balla FROD CALLR
ReplyDeleteI'm relieved to tell the third poster that no trust fund babies or hourly allowances were involved with this project.
ReplyDeleteIn response to what seems to be the general sentiment about possibly having used the money for something "better" like feeding the homeless or electing to have a lobotomy I would only like to ask why this response isn't given to every piece of art. All art costs money. Paint, canvas and various other artistic materials have a value. In many cases that monetary value far exceeds the amount I put into this piece and yet if the money spent on such a piece isn't clearly visible, there seems to be no objection to the financial cost of it's creation. This is one of the more interesting aspects of this piece (and art in general) to me. Money has a way of taking an identity of its own and blinding people to what it actually represents - resource. The money on that wall is only money to those who see it as money.
Most countries (the United States included) operate under a system of fiat currency. This means our bills are backed by no commodities. You can't walk into a bank and exchange a dollar bill for a dollar's worth of gold or silver. The bill only carries financial value because we collectively agree, as a society, that we will honor its fictional value. The raw materials in a dollar bill are worth roughly nine cents. The raw materials in a hundred dollar bill are worth roughly those same nine cents. But we collectively agree that a one dollar bill is "worth" one dollar and a hundred dollar bill is "worth" one hundred dollars. As objects they are both essentially worthless.
This piece is merely an artistic protest of this notion. Within our lifetimes all currency will become digital and no one will even have the option of such a protest.
-CHOD
great to see an artist who understands art!
DeleteChod is a wack name. It sounds like CHODE, a short stubby penis. Name change please. (hot female chick) we've met =)
ReplyDelete^hot female chick needs to check up on penis lingo. a CHOAD is the skin between the ball sack and the butthole.
DeleteCHOD needed that to make his pedestrian mural.
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