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Mark Wagner: IOU Made of Money
on Saturday, November 7, 2015Money collage artist Mark Wagner asking the question – if you create a work of art (titled I.O.U.) from money, is the debt considered repayed? Mark Wagner said:
“If you make an IOU out of money for a friend, do you still owe them money?” — Mark Wagner
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Collage Artist Mark Wagner on Money as Art
on Saturday, May 17, 2014Below are comments made by Paper Collage Artist Mark Wagner about his money collage art, work that makes us look more closely at currency. The video directly below has none of the quotes, but features Wagner talking to CBS Sunday Morning about his art. The quotes come from the second video on the page below from Avant Garde Diaries, titled “Money is Material”:
“The taboo around destroying a dollar bill makes people pay more attention to what … I’m doing than if I was using any other piece of paper”
“The object in question is essentially just a piece of paper. Money and currency don’t actually exist in the real world, they’re just something that we’ve made up”
“Sometimes I stop thinking of it as a dollar bill, I just think about it as materials. I have to remind myself sometimes that it’s worth money”
“It’s basically the most popular piece of paper on the planet”
“The dollar bill is ostensibly the most successful publication ever printed” – Mark Wagner
Mark Wagner on Dollar Bill as Materials
on Thursday, January 23, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying about dollar bills, that as a paper collage artist he uses dollars as artistic medium and the message. Mark Wagner said:
“Sometimes I stop thinking of it as a dollar bill, I just think about it as materials. I have to remind myself sometimes that it’s worth money” — Mark Wagner
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Mark Wagner on Dollars as Popular Paper
on Wednesday, January 22, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying the popularity of the dollar bill is greater than any other piece of printed paper in the world. Mark Wagner said:
“It’s basically the most popular piece of paper on the planet” — Mark Wagner
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Mark Wagner: Destroy Dollar Bills
on Tuesday, January 21, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying the value of his paper collage art is altered by the currency paper used to create it. Mark Wagner said:
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“The taboo around destroying a dollar bill makes people pay more attention to what … I’m doing than if I was using any other piece of paper” — Mark Wagner
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Mark Wagner on Dollars as Successful Publication
on Monday, January 20, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying more dollar bills are printed than any other publication printed on paper. Mark Wagner said:
“The dollar bill is ostensibly the most successful publication ever printed” — Mark Wagner
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Mark Wagner on Money Existence
on Sunday, January 19, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying that use of money in collage art makes us examine the real value of currency. Mark Wagner said:
“The object in question is essentially just a piece of paper. Money and currency don’t actually exist in the real world, they’re just something that we’ve made up” — Mark Wagner
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