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COUNTERFEIT! Done!


It shimmers!
Silver, gold and copper point drawing on black gesso boards. Copper leaf on the sides....it shimmers and disappears if you look at it the wrong way. Similar to our investments.
Sides are gilded with copper and mounted .75" off the surface inside a black box.

"The symbols on our currency were selected to illustrate our democratic capitalist society. Our nation’s recent unethical financial decisions have mocked their meaning. A redesigned currency might consist of bubbles, credit card swipes and distorted patterns.


Images drawn with silver, gold and copper shimmer on black. Slight angular shifts of light render them first visible, then invisible. Could this visual game be synonymous with the state of our economy?"


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