The Cost of Survival: A Kurdish artist’s vision to forge statue of a beggar from coins An eight-meter-tall statue of a beggar, hunched over with an outstretched palm and made entirely from discontinued Iraqi coins, is a vision Mira conceived in his early 20s and has sought to realize ever since. The idea came to him while he was in Baghdad finalizing another project.
The Cost of Survival: A Kurdish artist’s vision to forge statue of a beggar from coins An eight-meter-tall statue of a beggar, hunched over with an outstretched palm and made entirely from discontinued Iraqi coins, is a vision Mira conceived in his early 20s and has sought to realize ever since. The idea came to him while he was in Baghdad finalizing another project.



