Scott Campbell Carves Skull Out Of $11,000 of US Currency
Posted By Tafline Laylin On May 16, 2011 @ 3:00 pm In Art,gallery,Recycled Materials | 7 Comments
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Albeit amazing to look at, Scott Campbell [5]‘s series of skulls carved from stacks of one dollar bills are not the greenest artworks [6] we’ve covered. Using lasers, the artist carves into real, uncut United States [7] minted dollars to create tattoo art’s most ubiquitous image – the skull. Spotted over at Notcot [8], these delicate three-dimensional pieces subvert popular notions of nobility with tattoo parlor designs that use copper, real currency, graphite, ink and neon.
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A former tattoo artist, Scott opened his Noblesse Oblige exhibit this past weekend at the Oh Wow [10] art gallery in Los Angeles. Carving into books [11] is sacrilegious enough — although Brian Dettmer [12] at least gives an old relic new life. But this greenback skull burns through unused money to create art with a hefty price tag.
Poking good fun at the rich, the New York-based artist uses sheets of American money [13] worth $11,000 to create a two foot cube, out of which the three-dimensional skull is carved. Brilliant and bold, the skull does raise issues of how arbitrary money can seem. However, call us old-fashioned, but burning through dough also seems like a careless waste.
+ Scott Campbell [5]
Via Notcot [8]
Photos by Notcot [8]
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[11] Carving into books: http://inhabitat.com/gartenkulter-makes-poetic-pots-from-recycled-books/
[12] Brian Dettmer: http://inhabitat.com/artist-brian-dettmer-carves-old-books-into-intricate-narrative-sculptures/
[13] American money: http://inhabitat.com/harvard-study-reveals-coal-energy-to-be-one-of-the-most-expensive-forms-of-power/
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