In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, one local artist is spreading love and money around the city.
Community members helped place 100 paper mache hearts each made of 100 $1 bills throughout the Denver and Boulder areas.
The artist behind it all is Xander Phoenix. He chose to take on this project, the “Heart of Money,” because he wanted to spread joy around the city.
“We wanted to have each heart feel special and unique, so they’re all numbered one to 100,” said Phoenix.
According to Phoenix, everything the hearts are made of is temporary.
Community members came together to create hearts, which are made up of water-soluble art glue and temporary spray paint to spread love and kindness on Valentine’s Day.
It took community members 50 hours as many of them contributed to make this a reality. In total, community members contributed $10,000 for this project.
“Each heart has a location, we can track them on a map and get responses from people about which number they found,” said Phoenix.