The Golden Tear from Expo 2010 will have six copies

Prague - The Golden Tear LacrimAu, which was a major attraction of the Czech Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, will have six copies. The tear's creator Federico Díaz would like them to travel to New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, Moscow, and Shanghai. The specific locations are currently being discussed, according to the artist. He added that the original tear will remain in Prague.
    One of the copies will be auctioned on Thursday in Shanghai, the auction is set to be broadcast by CBN television. Právo reported that its starting price is 30 million crowns. Anything above this amount will go to charitable purposes in China, Díaz stated.
    The giant golden tear, which became one of the most-watched exhibits in the Czech Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, is part of an installation for creating personal perfumes. In reality, it is made of aluminum, with gold only serving as a coating. It was applied using nanotechnology, unique methods from HBM Plazma. The drop was originally supposed to be made from a ton of gold from the Czech National Bank, but the government refused to lend it to the creators.
    Díaz's installation called LacrimAu in the Czech Pavilion primarily worked with the emotions that a person experiences when looking at the giant golden drop. It captured the emotions from the visitor's head into a computer. The computer then evaluated them and a pipetting system created a personal fragrance from the essences.
    According to Díaz, the artistic endeavor connects human tears, perhaps one of the few liquid substances that is not traded, gold as a symbol of emotions, power, wars, and sorrow, and the sense of smell as one of the oldest senses. The name LacrimAu combines the Latin word for tear with the chemical symbol for gold.