The Nest Egg
48 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
Tel: 212.908.4110
Fax: 212.908.4601
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Celebrate the completion of the Museum Shop, and meet some of the artists and authors whose works are featured in the Shop. Our special guests will be on hand to discuss their projects and autograph copies of their works. Participants include Lori Savastano, Mike Rollins, Ellen Fisch, Scott Laperruque, Johnny Swing, Naima Rauam, Albert Crudo, Hedy Pegranmanski, Ken Winans, Robert Gambee, Matthew Fink, Dorothy Laager Miller, Joanne Medvecky and Barbara Rizek, among others.
Nest Egg sculptures are delicately balanced pyramids of real eggs on which images of financially related items have be transfer using a Polaroid technique called " Emulsion Transfer ". Using this technique along with changes in camera angle, color filtration, and exposure I transform the familiar faces and engravings found on world currencies, stocks, bonds, into photo-sculptures. These copyrighted sculptures represent one of the most universally understood symbols in the world, and pushes money into the realm of surrealism. Originally produced as a prop to be photographed and the image of the Nest to be sold as stock photography. As people saw the sculptures there was interest in purchasing the actual pieces. There are many Nest Eggs currently in private collections. The Museum of American Finance currently as one of the last large Nest Egg for sale, it is of international currencies, beautiful in color, on a base of brushed brass.
Each sculpture is hand built, unique and is dated and signed. The Nest Eggs were built in various sizes over the years. Unfortunately the " Emulsion Transfer " process ran into technically difficulty. After directly working with Polaroid for over a year I stopped producing the sculptures. Currently I will not be making any more, this will of course make the ones produced more rare.
The image shown above can be licensed for use by going to; http://alamy.com
and searching image file; BFABYM
More Nest Eggs images will be uploaded to Alamy or can be viewed by contacting me.