Comparative Value
mixed media assemblage
coins, old brass key, ebony, fragment of monoprint, broken fretboard, old typewriter key, burned jigsaw piece, beer cap.
by Dale Copeland, 2006
350 X 140 X 110mm
NZ $650
| Absolute or comparative value? Either way, money doesn't really have much of it. Money, beads, the tokens of barter. Of greater value perhaps are art, literature, music. Life itself? Here there are tokens/representations for all these (one of the coins was minted in the same year and country as I was born). No answers, not even a coherent question. But the comment about money seems worth making. (And if that beer cap represents the pursuit of pleasure then perhaps its value is right up there with the rest?) |
Dale's studio can be found on Surf Highway, Taranaki, New Zealand
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