UNEMPLOYED ARTISTS USE REMAINING CASH AS MEDIUM FOR ECONOMIC STATEMENT


April 15, 2009: A casualty of the 2008 economic crisis, unemployed conceptual artists Rushton Phillips, have used their remaining cash as a medium to comment on the downturn and their own financial uncertainty.

Entitled 'Financial Security (Blanket)', the project incorporates 208 American dollar bills, sewn together with thread, to form a makeshift security blanket. The fragility of the blanket conjures an oxymoronic image, consistent with the current state of global unemployment, homelessness and financial insecurity.