I made a giant outline of myself out people

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Here is the link to my website "BenEverywhere Giant Outline"

Also, I need participants for my next artwork. For this I would like to have people from various parts of the world wear my T-Shirts. The first batch will be free of cost for participants, and I can only give out 50. All I ask in return is an image of you wearing the shirt so that I can display it up at my site/portfolio. If interested follow
Secret Form 1 Link It has a link to the second form on it where you can upload images.





On Friday March 7, 2008 an outline of Artist Ben Campbell was made out of 35 participants and signed by a 36th participant wearing the "Ben Suit". Those that stuck around were paid in Benero's, a currency back up by artwork and featuring the image of Ben on them.

Overall, I'd say that the project was fairly successful and goes with the theme of my artwork. I suppose the basic principle behind all of this is the idea of value, that we are really trading in value and not so much money. From that we can see that people are taking part and placing value in the artist, with some expectation of growth. And by working and getting paid in Benero's as opposed to Dollars, people are adding value to the Benero as it is now based off of labor as well.

I suppose its my way of throwing stones at the system.

Here are some more links

"Video in the Odessa American"

"Article in the Odessa American"

Interesting. But, I kinda find the idea of them making an outline of you kinda...well...narcissistic.

It mostly looks that way on the surface. They probably wouldn't have done that if I was genuinely narcissistic.

I figure its an interesting approach to potentially/hopefully becoming the next Warhol and is reflective of our times.