# Exhibit #36: MEME MONEY MIRACLE

Canonical page: https://www.meme-orial.com/collection/36
JSON record: https://www.meme-orial.com/data/exhibits/36

Artwork: https://www.meme-orial.com/images/exhibits/36.webp (1000 × 1000, image/webp)

The piece depicts a Shiba Inu dog - the mascot of the SHIB cryptocurrency - leaping toward a luminous moon, capturing the token's astronomical rise in value during 2021. The addition of a rocket strapped to the dog's back references the popular crypto community phrase "to the moon," symbolizing explosive price growth, while also highlighting the artificial nature of this propulsion - suggesting that the rise was more about manufactured hype than inherent value.

The title "MEME MONEY MIRACLE" encapsulates how a cryptocurrency based on a meme of another cryptocurrency (Dogecoin) achieved a multi-billion dollar market cap, creating sudden wealth for early investors. This speaks to our deep-seated fascination with sudden transformations of fortune and the democratization of wealth creation. The composition taps into primal human attraction to "get rich quick" narratives while also highlighting their arbitrary nature - a dog literally rocketing to the moon represents both the absurdity and allure of meme-driven financial phenomena. The piece captures a moment when internet culture, cryptocurrency speculation, and social media hype combined to create what seemed like money out of memes, highlighting how digital age wealth creation often seems to defy traditional economic logic.

Source: (MEME)ORIAL project catalogue (https://www.meme-orial.com/collection). Descriptions and visual readings are supplied by the project catalogue. They include artistic interpretation and commentary on the historical referents.

Token reference: eip155:1 (Ethereum mainnet), ERC-721 contract 0x3c4ba32efff21661a99c5739d1b2d95765e80a70, token ID 36.

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