Unemployed Artist Uses Remaining Cash as Medium for Economic Statement

27 Apr 2009 07:30 Africa/Lagos


Unemployed Artist Uses Remaining Cash as Medium for Economic Statement

TORONTO, Canada, April 27/PRNewswire/ -- A casualty of the 2008 economic crisis, unemployed conceptual artist Brian Rushton Phillips, has used his remaining cash as a medium to comment on the downturn and his own financial uncertainty.


Entitled 'Financial Security (Blanket)', the project incorporates 208 American dollar bills, sewn together with thread, to form a makeshift security blanket.


The fragility of the blanket conjures an oxymoronic image, consistent with the current state of global unemployment, homelessness and financial insecurity.


The work has been pre-released online:


http://www.rushtonphillips.com/financial_security.html.


For further information: and press materials: +1-416-807-1341, mail@rushtonphillips.com


Source: Rushton Phillips Collaborations

For further information: and press materials: +1-416-807-1341, mail@rushtonphillips.com