Watch This Designer Shred $10,000 For The Sake Of Art

Seeking professional help for your insatiable greed? Dutch designer Diddo has the perfect treatment for you.

1. This is “The Cure for Greed.”

It’s a custom-made mahogany or walnut box that contains a 24-karat gold plated syringe, two 24-karat gold plated needles, and one 5ml vial of stabilized pure ink recovered from approximately $10,000 in US currency.

The work, which required months of chemical and mechanical procedures to complete, aims to create dialogue around human greed.

3. All of this….

4. Turned into this!

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5. Here’s how it was done:

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