I am looking for a good news calendar for 2025. I find one, but the calendar is sold out, so I guess I am a bit tardy in my search.
Instead, I happen upon weird things artists use to make art. What made me wonder this is the strange tropical house plant made out of felt in the Globe and Mail.
What other materials do people use to make their sculptures? Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom's sculptures are made out of lottery tickets. Dream Car made of $39,000 worth of lottery tickets to represent the retail cost of the new car in 2008, is a large-scale installation that ruminates on money spent on dreams and the risky behaviours that accompany these goals. They also use afterworld money. I find out that this is spirit money, a "a form of joss paper", (incense paper) an offering used in traditional Chinese ancestor worship. It is a burnt offering to the deceased so that they have money to spend in the afterlife.
The articles say the lottery tickets are discarded: "We kept finding these lost lottery tickets littered all over the ground and we started picking them up thinking they were someone's lost wish; that they were this hope and dream that they had and then they tossed it away. We started thinking about what those dreams actually meant and what happens if you collected enough of those to make that dream into a reality."
At the end of the article, it says: More stories like this one. I think one is enough for today.
Here's another one of my abstracts - this is at the car wreckers yard.
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