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Corban Daniel Emilio Yop Bañez
CORBAN DANIEL EMILIO YOP BAÑEZ
When Life Gives You Means
Spending Pains
Nickels, plaster, ceramics
$800
Trickle on me!
Glazed ceramics, nickels
$900 or $8.00/pot, $15.00/glazed pot
Self Inflicted
Plaster, found objects, nickels
$200
Drowning
Plaster, nickels
$150
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The dollar is a god before which I am tricked into kneeling. I have an unhealthy mindset towards money. My desperation for it overwhelms me. As soon as I start believing I have enough money, it disappears. Recently I have been viewing everything through the lens of a dollar sign. Looking up to the people in this world who appear to have made it, those who do not have to worry about their next fill up at the gas station or the amount of food they order at a restaurant or their child’s education, makes me feel further from ever being truly satisfied with my own wallet. Will I ever reach that impossible goal of satisfaction?
Each piece in this series utilizes the nickel as a neutral yet potent representation of money. The nickel embodies the influence it has had on every aspect of my life these past four years of college. It encapsulates the feeling of inescapability it has in its lure. Through mixed media sculptures, I lean into this idea of financial struggle in many different forms; mass-produced pottery and found objects gave me the freedom to represent these issues. I seek to use these shiny coins to make the viewer question whether the primary subject is the money or the objects bearing its weight.
-Corban Daniel Emilio Yop Bañez
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Spending Pains
Nickels, plaster, ceramics
$800
Trickle on me!
Glazed ceramics, nickels
$900 or $8.00/pot, $15.00/glazed pot
Self Inflicted
Plaster, found objects, nickels
$200
Drowning
Plaster, nickels
$150
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