Wow... A Piece Of Art For Our Times...

[WillyT]

A giant, green monument to the credit crunch
By Al Olson, Deputy Business Editor at msnbc.com

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Is it a metaphor? An attempt at irony? Or is it art?


Artist An Te Liu's monument to the mortgage mess
is 36-feet by 44-feet.

According to Canadian artist An Te Liu, his life-sized Monopoly house is all three. Liu believes the mortgage mess "was caused by traders and bankers playing their games on Wall Street, so the common man was squeezed because of that."

So Liu constructed a monument called "Title Deed" to call attention to the crisis. The giant green house, built around a condemned home in Willowdale, Ont., looks nearly identical to the the board pieces of the iconic board game.

"Our homes are not necessarily what we think they are," Liu told the Britain's Daily Mail. "They are property just like in Monopoly to be remortgaged and used as collateral."

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Link: http://lifeinc.todayshow.com/_news/2010/10/29/5373466-a-giant-green-monument-to-the-credit-crunch

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[liberalmuse]

1. I like it!

It really does look like a Monopoly house.

[tilsammans]

2. Very clever! n/t

[n2doc]

3. Too bad it isn't made out of hemp n/t

[ensho]

13. kick

nt

[felix_numinous]

4. A huge monopoly game piece!!

Wow wouldn't it be cool to make the whole game at this scale!! And have it being played in real time to represent what is happening (I can't help my imagination....)

[SpiralHawk]

5. "All your Boardwalks & Park Places are belong to us." - RepubliCorp (R)

"Smirk. Sneer." - RepubliCorp (R)

[nashville_brook]

6. that's art. no question.

[Odin2005]

7. LOL, that is Awesome! Giant Monopoly house!

[Quantess]

8. Very cool!

[Hannah Bell]

9. knr.

[maryf]

10. K&R

worth a thousand words...

[Stuart G]

11. OK

[ensho]

12. I heart artists

nt

[blondeatlast]

14. Ziiing-TARGET.

If only giving one's home up was as easy and thoughtless as it is in Monopoly.