All right. All right. What's up, guys? What's up, man?
-Hey. -How you doing?
-I'm good. How are you? -I'm 2 Chainz.
I'm Mark Sturkenboom.
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This is my homeboy, Trouble, right here.
What's up, buddy?
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All right, so this right here is called
the "Most Expensivest: Celebration of Life,"
meaning afterlife, like, the after-after-party.
I didn't know people pre-plan for when they leave Earth.
You know what I mean?
So could you tell the people what you have to offer?
Well, I created a piece 6 years ago that's called 21 Grams,
and basically it's a memory box
that contains all the beautiful memories
that a widow has to her late husband.
For example, the best day in her life is, of course,
when he proposed to her, so it's the engagement ring.
One door can hold the perfume so she can still smell him,
and, in the other door, she can pin something down
the reminds her about him, and, in the back of the cabinet,
there's room for an iPhone, and you can put it in,
and then you can play the music that you had together.
-For an iPhone? -Or an Android.
-It's what you want. -Yeah.
And, in the drawer, there's room for a small handkerchief
so she can dry her eyes, of course, when she is sad.
And the urn itself, that is in the box.
It holds a golden capsule.
You can open it, and there's room
for exactly 21 grams of ashes,
and the shape already refers to it, so...
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Uh, did it start as an art project?
Like, it seems like it started as an art project, and then...
Well, I was graduating in art school in the Netherlands.
I came up with a series of products around time,
around death, about love, how we look at these things
and how we deal with these things,
and I had a neighbor in my apartment complex,
and she lost her husband a long time ago,
and she basically always was speaking romantically of him,
and I want to visualize a story,
and that's what I do with all my work.
All these items are basically to give the widow
the chance or the opportunity to have
a romantic, intimate night again
with her husband if she desires.
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But basically it's a metaphorical object,
but, uh, it is possible.
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♪ No more lonely nights ♪
And, of course, because this is so personal...
Yeah. That's really personal.
When she locks it, the key is also the profile of the face.
Oh.
What you think about this, Trevor?
Uh...
I know, right? Me too.
Yeah.
Me too, thinking the same shit.
Uh, what do you think?
Um, all right.
So the one thing I want to ask you is...
Let me get this straight. You have a box.
-Yeah. -And it's a beautiful box.
It's a nice box.
You open the box up,
and you have an engagement ring right here.
-Yeah, yeah. -Okay, boom.
Then you open up this side of the box,
and the widower will come to you
with a fragrance, preferably Bond No. 9,
for memorabilia of their late husband, right?
Maybe.
Maybe, boom. What is this?
This anything that they can think of?
Yeah. Maybe it's his last cigarette.
Okay, boom.
Cigarette.
Then you have an iPhone for the music, boom.
And then you have this handkerchief
because you're guaranteeing a tear to come out, right?
-Maybe. -Okay, boom.
And then you have...
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...this that you created in the Netherlands,
and...
you put 21 grams in this tube or in this gold thing?
Yeah, in the golden capsule, but it's not for me to do.
I create the piece, and whatever a widow or a person
wants to do with it is up to them, you know?
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Yeah.
It's for individuals who seek, I guess,
post-life gratification.
I think it's for people who find it hard to move on.
You just have to look at it on the art side of things.
As far as my opinion, I kind of don't have one.
Cool.
I mean, I guess you're supposed to think outside the box.
You know what I mean?
Who am I to critique what's right or wrong about that?
It seems like a lot of people have a well-thought-out plan
for what they want when they die,
and I'm not one of those people.
Yeah. That's true.
Me, as I haven't even got that far.
Yeah. I'm not either. I'm not there.
I don't -- I mean, people like, "You going to die," like,
"Okay, cool," but, like, shit.
Everybody deals with death differently.
-That's the whole thing, right? -Oh, man.
And that's why I think it's dope in art to deal with death
because it's something that we all deal with no matter what.
Yep. We have to. Yeah.
Like, it's the most guaranteed thing, so...
-Cool. -How much does this cost?
$10,000 U.S. dollars.
Do you sell these in the States?
I get a lot of requests from the States.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Not everybody has so much money to spend.
$10,000 is a lot of money.
Yeah, but it takes several weeks to layer down and sand down
this box completely made from wood.
You know, man, I really respect what you're doing.
You say you're from the Netherlands?
-Yeah. -Cheers.
Do you plan on doing this same concept for men?
I get the question a lot.
It's a pretty good question. Yeah.
-You're a man, so... -Yeah, yeah.
It's a really good question.
Yeah, if somebody want to commission me to do it.
Post-life, if this is something that you want to do,
got to holler at my man.
He has a real-deal jack-in-the-box,
if you get what I mean.
2 Chainz's "Most Expensivest: Celebration of Life,"
Trevor Andrews, my other man, here,
representing Netherlands to the highest and to the fullest,
and this is the next wave of post-life celebration.