{"id":90,"date":"2009-02-17T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-03-17T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T19:53:45","slug":"money-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Money Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Rag+Bone\" src=\"http:\/\/ragandbone.com\/bloggerimages\/2007_07_31_cut_money\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/>Australian art student Nicholas Manion [Queensland College of Art, Brisbane]\u00c2\u00a0 hit upon a clever idea: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.ragandbone.com\/blog\/?p=647\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ragandbone.com\/blog\/?p=647\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>delicately cut paper currency<\/strong><\/a> forming the skyline of major cities. His one-of-a-kind notes bring a contemporary visual connection to their country of origin, in addition to images of statesmen, local languages and artistic styles.<\/p>\n<p>Money makes the world go round and circles the globe forming links between cities on opposite sides of the world. Nicholas further explains his art:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My work aims to explore ideas connected with cities, urban life and the built environment. Reflecting my own background, my art cannot be solely understood as either illustration or sculpture; rather in challenging the relationships between two-and three-dimensional forms, these works in paper seek to create an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in-between\u00e2\u20ac\u009d state of pure form free from preconceptions and noise. I seek to <strong>transform common materials such as paper<\/strong> and cardboard into delicate objects of intricate detail and unexpected beauty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ via: <a title=\"http:\/\/ragandbone.com\/blog\/?s=money+week&amp;submit=Search\" href=\"http:\/\/ragandbone.com\/blog\/?s=money+week&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Rag+Bone <\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian art student Nicholas Manion [Queensland College of Art, Brisbane]\u00c2\u00a0 hit upon a clever idea: delicately cut paper currency forming the skyline of major cities. His one-of-a-kind notes bring a contemporary visual connection to their country of origin, in addition to images of statesmen, local languages and artistic styles. Money makes the world go round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17,13,81,15],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-craft","tag-money","tag-monopoly","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}