He literally made counterfeit cash (money) in which he argued that every banknote was a work of art. However his bills draws attention to details small changes. The idea that these were fake was undermined by the fact they were only one-sided and contained jokes, humor from Boggs himself like DO YOU HEAR ANYTHING BEING SAID HERE, OR AM I EMPTY NOW? IS ANYBODY HOME? HELLO? fond above.
Artists would abstract it but never to this degree of detail, with the goal to turn theory into practice. Boggs would spend his fake cash outside in the world, in effort to watch people twist once pressed to accept his "Boggs bills" as "real" currency. The art isn't in the physical drawing more of the philosophy of numbered material. Where all of us made to become to feel cold hollowness at the center of the all-powerful dollar.
His work excelled at inducing an unquestionable extensive anxiety, all hazy and stressed , around abstractions like “value” or “authenticity”. Deciding between spotting the individual and the collective or he'll prick a mini ditch in the nation’s social web or disappoint one very hardworking, fast-talking artist.
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