Culture-Jamming with the Lords of Finance: Jamie & Bob
BEAR STEARNS (2008) DIMON: "A PIECE OF ART CLOSE TO MY HEART" I have many artists in my family - for example, my mother creates psychedelic textile art , and my uncle Stidy is a political cartoonist - but I feel over the last few years that I've been giving too little attention to the dark arts of art. So, welcome to my first exhibition. It all started when I was messing around with one of those demotivational poster generators . I was reflecting on the sad greatness of the now departed Bear Stearns, and Shakespeare came to mind with the speech of Mark Antony , when he says "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears, so that I can sell them to an investment bank that wants to securitise them". One thing led to another, and I created my first masterwork. I called it simply, Bear Stears , but it is now known amongst collectors as 'ear 'ear . When I first put it out for auction on Ebay, the piece wasn't well understood, it's meaning opaque ...