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  The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom: View From Street

  title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom: View From Street 

  description João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05  La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.)  Sculpture and Installations  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01)  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Louro, João 

  subject Automobiles  Junkyards  Humor  Junk Sculpture  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Consumers  Automobile Showrooms  Insite_05  Mexican-American Border Region  Poverty  Wealth  Performance Art  Ferrari, S.P.A  Recycling  Parody  Installations (Visual Works)  Border Art  Ruins 

  contributor Calisphere