Change (for Illustration Friday)
Friday, September 15, 2006 at 05:13PM 
For Illustration Friday today I thought about small change in my pocket, 5 pesos might be a small amount (about 50 cents U.S.) but back when I was 4 years old (about the time this coin was circulating in Mexico) it could get me so many wonderful things, a balloon or maybe a lollipop, back then I thought my Dad was the richest man in the world, he would give me 5 pesos every sunday and I could spend it in whatever I wanted. And at the same time I also thought my mom was really poor cause whenever I asked her for something in a store she would say she didn't have any money, so even back then the world seemed like a strange place.
This collage is about the way money can be an important part of life, it can define people and the things they're able to do, if someone crazy has a lot of money and has a crazy idea, it may very well get done sooner than later. This is the way wars work, I think... it's almost always about money in some way or another.
What does money means for you?
Reader Comments (5)
We now have the euro and all European coins look the same. I think it's a shame we lost the diversity of currencies.