7, 1, 13, 2, 12, 5 (GAMBLE)
‘GAMBLE’ is a piece that explores the hopes and mental state of gamblers who willingly put money behind random numbers. Each word is exactly six letters long and contains no repeating letters. This corresponds with the set of 6 unique numbers gamblers would bet on for the price of $1.
The missing numbers on a lotto grid represents the empty hope gamblers regularly pin their hopes on, on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. This piece has the material value of S$6 worth of notes (or approximately US$4.50)
This piece belongs to a series of artwork where the artist explores the use of physical money as a medium in the creation of art, to convey specific emotions and messages through the interest it garners, while searching for a way to make use of the guaranteed value of money, a vehicle to measure what the value of a good idea is, when executed in art form.
Great care has been taken in the execution of these art pieces in order to preserve the integrity of the notes so as to ensure that the material value of the art pieces is immediately visible to the audience.
After viewing each of the pieces, the audience will be invited to indicate a dollar value to each of these pieces, from which we would then ascertain the ‘appreciation’ in value from its original material existence.
The missing numbers on a lotto grid represents the empty hope gamblers regularly pin their hopes on, on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. This piece has the material value of S$6 worth of notes (or approximately US$4.50)
This piece belongs to a series of artwork where the artist explores the use of physical money as a medium in the creation of art, to convey specific emotions and messages through the interest it garners, while searching for a way to make use of the guaranteed value of money, a vehicle to measure what the value of a good idea is, when executed in art form.
Great care has been taken in the execution of these art pieces in order to preserve the integrity of the notes so as to ensure that the material value of the art pieces is immediately visible to the audience.
After viewing each of the pieces, the audience will be invited to indicate a dollar value to each of these pieces, from which we would then ascertain the ‘appreciation’ in value from its original material existence.
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