Does Your Money Have Wings?

May 10, 2005 12:44 AM

A cool idea, and a fun allegory:Bird and butterfly collages made with old bank notes (two pages, horizontal scrolling). Click the images to view larger versions and see the notes that were used (scroll down). More here without the note source info.
posted by taz (4 comments total)

From Swiss artist Denis Cornaglia. On the first (horizontal-scrolling) sets, for pictures with multiple figures, click on individual images to see the larger views.

Too bad these are not very high-quality .jpgs, but I love the idea!
posted by taz at 12:48 AM on May 10, 2005

[this is good]
I especially liked the cameleon, for some odd reason.
posted by dhruva at 1:33 AM on May 10, 2005

Ah, taz, I missed this earlier today! Leave it to you to find this unique cool thing with such beautiful patterns and textures. Love the cameleon, dhruva, and this guy is pretty neat too. Where is iconomy, she would love this stuff.
posted by madamjujujive at 5:52 PM on May 10, 2005

WOW! I almost like the thumbs best, where the detail of the bank notes is hinted at, there but barely visible, adding color and texture. Nice! Amazing.
posted by Shane at 11:28 PM on May 10, 2005