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Brian Rushton Phillips (born April 19, 1972), is a German-Canadian visual artist and graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD).
April, 2009: A casualty of the 2008 economic crisis, unemployed conceptual artist Brian Rushton Phillips, has used his remaining cash as a medium to comment on the downturn and his own financial uncertainty.
Entitled ‘Financial Security (Blanket)’, the project incorporates 208 American dollar bills, sewn together with thread, to form a makeshift security blanket. The fragility of the blanket conjures an oxymoronic image, consistent with the current state of global unemployment, homelessness and financial insecurity.
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