Fairly Tender
“Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is "heads"-the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on the other side is "tails"-the precise specification of the amount the coin is worth as payment in exchange. One side reminds us that states underwrite currencies and the money is originally a relation between persons in society, a token perhaps. The other reveals the coin as a thing, capable of entering into definite relations with other things.”
Keith Hart (Graeber, David. Debt: the first 5,000 years. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House, 2011.)
Coins are intriguing objects: the physical manifestation of abstracted value. They are a form of representation that we all agree signifies a specific value. This project explored the notion of the space both in the physicality of coinage and the spaces that the currency can purchase.