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                                                                   The Price of Art

                                                        Picture
                                                        The artist lays on the floor on a life size self portrait picture. Standing up slowly he walks away from the picture to a wall where he undresses the suit he has been wearing tens of times during his performances and changes it for 'normal' clothes. He goes upstairs where the audience is standing and let them throw hundreds of coins down to the picture. He then invites the audience down. He finishes with shaving and washing the head of the picture man.

                                                        Performed October 30th 2005 at the 'Ars Fennica' exhibition of Roi Vaara, Amos Andersson Museum, Helsinki.