Video: Penny Harvest Field - $ 1 Million Installation
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Have you ever seen what a million dollars looks like? Architect James S. Polshek provided such an opportunity to everyone. True, he did it in a rather peculiar way: his installation Penny harvest field - this is a million dollars, poured in coins in denominations of 1 cent.
The installation, which appeared in October 2007 at New York's Rockefeller Center, is a rectangular container filled with real money. One million dollars is … that's right, one hundred million cents. Plus or minus a couple of coins. To bring all this money to the designated place, it took 14 tractor trailers, in which more than 15 thousand bags of change were placed. The money lies right on the footpath, fenced off by low sides, and the inner surface of these sides is mirrored - so the organizers wanted to create the illusion of an endless sea of coins.
The installation was sponsored by Tishman Speyer, whose company controls Rockefeller Center. However, most of the coins were collected by school pupils and students as part of a program run annually by the non-profit Common Cents. The installation was available for viewing until the end of 2007, after which all the money was spent on charity: as grants for American students.
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