Find a penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck right?
I still do it.Even if I am alone and I spot a coin on the ground,in my head i am saying this little verse as i pick up the coin.
Which is why I was so curious about the coins in Rundle street.
When I started work,the council was repaving the street and therefor some of the coins were ripped up.
Michelle and her team were to come back and re-lay the coins and I was lucky enough one morning to catch this.Michelle herself was pretty humble and didn't say much....I guess every tom dick and harry ask her the same questions all day long...
Adelaide sculptress Michelle Nikou started this project in 2006 in Rundle street.Randomly placed down the street in clusters are coins.
." The artists’ rationale for the numerous gold and silver coins was to pave the streets of Adelaide ‘with gold’. The daylight along Rundle Street in early morning and evening provides natural illumination that reflects off the gold coins especially well. The selection of coins (current and antique) represents as many countries as possible. The use of international currency acknowledges the cultural diversity within the street and is in part, a welcoming symbol for tourists and new residents of the City. The art work invokes curiosity, and images and memories of foreign places. The artist aimed for the artwork to make sense in small sections that you can see through the legs people congregating on the street, as well as the art work as a whole. The result of embedding a range of old and antique, national and international coins into the new paving has created an artwork that is unexpected in form and location. Of the over 1000 coins, 60% are predominantly Australian, with the remaining coins sourced from around the world. The majority of the coins are gold. The coins are spread randomly over 110 pavers – some pavers have numerous coins (looking like a handful of coins have been dropped from a pocket) and others just a few – the average number of coins per paver is 5 to 6 coins."
Just another fine example of Adelaides support of public art.
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