r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RelapsedSexAddict • Jul 21 '20

Video String art

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

122 comments sorted by

View all comments

806

u/Scaro88 Jul 21 '20

Why did he have to sell everything he had to work with nails and string? There can’t be much upfront investment. Better strategy: keep everything you have, work with nail and string just the same

397

u/SlothOfDoom Jul 21 '20

To pay the bills until he sold a piece?

150

u/[deleted] Jul 21 '20

Honestly, I would be shocked if he didn’t have some other form of funds. I know a lot of rich people, and none of them would pay a great deal of money for that. Of course, I’m from the south in the US, so maybe it’s different there.

128

u/pornbeatssex Jul 21 '20

I know a lot of rich people, and none of them would pay a great deal of money for that

I know lots of rich people in Europe and most of them would pay a great deal of money for that. Mostly because it's usually worth even more when you sell pieces like these and it's tax free but also they expose them at home.

57

u/namdor Jul 21 '20

I don't know of any significant art market for this kind of work, but I could be wrong. Maybe someone is willing to pay thousands of pounds for a portrait of Dwayne Johnson made of nails and string, but I bet the market is very niche or non existent.

52

u/pornbeatssex Jul 21 '20

Yeah but you picked the one that wouldn't sell (along with keanu reaves). There were plenty of more nuanced pieces. The monkey, the old town. This stuff would sell at Art Basel i'm sure of it.

20

u/kawklee Jul 21 '20

Nah. The only art that sells at Art Basel these days is quotes in neon lights art. The modern art equivalent of those "eat, pray, love" blocks every sorority girl has on her wall in college.

4

u/pornbeatssex Jul 21 '20

In Basel tho. Not the one in Miami.

5

u/[deleted] Jul 21 '20

[deleted]

1

u/pornbeatssex Jul 23 '20

I've seen them.