廖耿民 / 有錢 money make me visible

《money make me visible》 

雖然我們生存在多元價值觀的社會裡，但仍不可否認，一個人身上擁有多少的金錢，似乎就能得到多少重視。我們知道世界上80%的財富被20%的人所擁有，而這20%的人就如圖畫面上四位被貼滿1000元鈔票的人，是那麼的有重量、是那麼的明顯；而另外80%的人，則隨著身上所擁有的金錢越低，份量也就越低、也就越不明顯。畫面上每個人都被不同程度的金錢所困，其表現錢雖然都只是一張小紙與一個小銅板，真正的重量都微不足道，也不能代表個人的一切，卻始終支配著我們，也左右著世俗看我們的眼光，大大佔據著我們的生活。因為我有錢，所以我正容易被看見、被重視。 

《money make me visible》

Even though we are living in a society of plural values, it is hard to deny that how much you have in the pocket defines the amount of attention you get. We know that 80% of global wealth is owned by 20% of people and those people are like the four characters with thousand-dollar cash sticking all over them in the pictures──so valuable and visible. As for the other 80% of people, as their pockets get lighter they get smaller and more invisible. No matter that money is nothing more than papers or coins, or how negligible the actual weight it is, or how less it represents a person, each person in the picture is troubled by different financial problems which shows that money has dominated us, controlled the way people judge us, and occupied our lives. I have money, so they see me and they take me seriously.