"The Cure For Greed" treating greed with an ink syringe set of ink and pure gold made from 50 dollar bills for 800,000 yen

If it triggered the exchange of opinions to investigate "greed" in personal meaning and social meaning, an icon-like object created as "The Cure For Greed"It is a set of 24 ml of syringe and 5 ml of ink extracted from 50 dollar bill of 10,000 dollars (about 800,000 yen).

The Cure for Greed - Diddo - Artist & Designer
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The syringe and ink are in a woodgrain wooden box.


Pakketto try opening the box ......


A syringe made of 24 gold to the tip of the needle.


And 5 ml of ink extracted from 50 dollar bill.


It seems that ink extraction work was done in a place like a lab.


That is, from the following movie, how to produce 5 ml of ink from a 50 dollar bill for about 800,000 yen.

The Cure for Greed - The making of on Vimeo


What is stacked and stacked ... ...


It is a 50 dollar bill.


Taking this in hand ......


I put it on the shredder.



A paper dust of the original 50 dollar bill falls down under the shredder at the same time.



Collect the fallen waste paper ... ...


I will pack it in a mixer.


A custody


Take a firm lid ......


Switch on.



After a while, when opening the lid ......


Like this, paper waste was in fluffy powder form.


Put it in a sieve ...


I will drop the fine powder down.


Gray powder was piled up on the dish placed under the sieve.


I also take powder carefully with brush on the shredder's blade.


With this, the materials are prepared.


Pour a trolleylike liquid into the crunch as the source of the ink ......


I added powder made from 50 dollar bill earlier.


I will continue to corrugate with pellets.



After a while, a totally black black liquid was finished.


Transfer this to a flask and place it on a fire.



The liquid in it caught me steadily.


Lower the flask from the fire.


When transferred to a container ......


Like this.


Then transfer it to a bottle of ink ...


I firmly lid.


Completion


Laying this in a dedicated case ......


A 24-gold syringe and an ink set of 800,000 yen were completed.


It is said that human nature "greedy" is "the root of corruption and evil", on the other hand, is said to be "the key that human beings have adapted to the earth and have made evolution successful," and the actual Where it is not known what the identity of the greed is, it can be understood as an invariant algorithm built into the DNA, that is, a survival instinct trying to change the environment which immediately deteriorates, It is said to be part of the darkness of our nature based on reactions or fears, and that's why not because it is not a contingent, it is made by the desire to treat fundamental greed and be more human-like, The Cure For Greed ".