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A sculpture of Eleanor Rigby made of £1m worth of banknotes has gone on display in Liverpool.
As NME reports the famous protagonist of the Beatles song has been given a new lease of life by Liverpool-born sculptor Leonard Brown, crafted from thousands of shredded £5, £10 and £20 notes that were donated to the artist by the Bank of England in the form of pellets.
Intended as a comment on the divide between rich and poor, Brown explains 'The sculpture serves to show people that money isn’t the only way to make you happy, or indeed 'buy you love' and we should all be thankful for what we have. There are people in every town and city like Eleanor Rigby who live a lonely life, and whose only worldly goods are kept in the bags that they carry."
A sculpture of Eleanor Rigby made from £1m of bank notes goes on display at @MuseumLiverpool http://t.co/gATCnN1oI6 pic.twitter.com/HCjpY99EQG
— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) September 21, 2014
A note placed alongside the statue reads, ‘I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet’, which Brown explains he was often reminded of the phrase as a young boy growing up in the city.
The sculpture will be on display in the atrium of the Musem of Liverpool until January 2015.
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