Lately life has handed me quite a few lemons: literally – my husband’s new van stopped working and figuratively – my interwebs are haunted. I guess I’m supposed to find a way to make lemonade, but with all that sugary tartness I’m not so motivated.
Art duo Ghost of a Dream stumbled upon a bunch of lemons in the form of a pile of losing lottery tickets. The pair took it among themselves to consider the nature of the lottery, the things we desire, and the anticipation of the win followed by the inevitable loss. Then, they made lemonade:
Dream Home 2009, $70,000 in discarded lotto tickets, wood & steel
Dream Home Detail
Dream Home Detail
Dream Car 2008, $39,000 in discarded lottery tickets, cardboard, cast plastic, wood, steel, and mirror
This is it 2010 discarded lottery tickets, romance novel covers, wood and found objects
This Is It, detail
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For more lotto madness: Ghost of a Dream
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Holy Hell. Where do people come up with stuff like this? Sometimes reading your blog makes me feel completely uncreative. But I guess not everyone needs to reinvent the wheel….
How quickly it adds up. To think what could have been done with all those bucks! Kinda sad.
Just awesome. That is all.
Wowser. I would never have heard of this without your fabulous blog, so you made me a big cool glass of lemonade with this post. So much to think about — what a concept. I clicked over to their site and saw the old romance novel covers included in projects. Deep stuff.
Wow.
And I thought I was the shit for hanging my own wallpaper.
love all that. but now i’m racking my brain trying to remember the gameshow no whammies is from. help???
Holy patience and creativity! That is amazing!