Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/15/defaced-banknotes-depict-the-f.html
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“Defaced?”
No, those banknotes still have faces. . . .
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Not $50… £50. More like $60 (which just goes to show you how devalued the pound has become).
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charming, indeed.
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These are excellent. Inasmuchas anything that reminds us of these fucking ghouls can be excellent.
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Missing (whatever the UKIP guy’s name was, happy to have forgotten him) and the Wonder Twins Blair and Cameron.
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For banknotes to be “defaced,” wouldn’t the art have to be produced on actual, real banknotes?
I don’t think original prints qualify.
ETA: These are defaced banknotes: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/08/andrew-jackson-becomes-rambo-a.html
The stuff in this post is banknote-inspired art.
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Nightmarish!
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A lot of UK folks are having nightmares right now. 
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Seriously… I’d bet that director Mike Leigh would love to hang these on a wall (although the Thatcher note would likely be a prime target for squadrons of darts).
Trump… bringing yet more ‘honor’ to the presidential office.
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Missing Cameron, the chief architect of the apocalypse
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Loverly! I’ve always thought Francis Bacon should have designed a pound note.
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So this work is being paid for with the profits of lying these anti-human politicos into power.
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They have a different set including them:
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$50 sounds far too cheap for these.
In my experience this hardly pays for the Hahnemühle paper it’s printed on.
