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CHINESE ARTIST DUPLICATES BANKNOTE WITH EGG-SHAPED ROCKS
Never unsderestimate the creativity (or craziness) of artists. One artist in China has recreated a common banknote image using eggs (actually, colored egg-shaped rocks. Check it out.
-Editor
In the years between the end of World War II and Mao's declaration of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it is said that China's money was so worthless a single egg cost ¥10,000. Perhaps one artist in Guangzhou, southern China, had that fact in mind when this sculpture was conceived. Except they got it backwards – it's a case of a thousand eggs being needed for a single banknote. The work was based on the 50 yuan note designed in 1980.
To read the complete article, see:
Chinese Money Worth Weight in Eggs
(www.weirdasianews.com/2009/11/20/chinese-money-worth-weight-eggs/)
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