Geographies of Power Print

Money is an abstraction, a digitized system, which like language allows us to structure the world and map it out into an autonomous whole. It allows us to compare and equate things yet only within the system. Their relative value is always deferred to the system itself. Currency is the regional representation of money, acting both as its materiality and abstract quantification, from which it can be converted and equated to any currency. It is embedded in a global order which transcends its local specificity and symbolism. Representations within currencies stand as symbols within specific cultural contexts. These symbolic representations disappear as they are converted from one currency to another. Capital moves across nations fluidly where it can, always willing to change its face, to convert itself. In the euro, national symbols are surrendered to the fictional representations of the bridging of nations across a continent. The bridges and arches represented in euro bank notes do not exist as such anywhere outside of currency. They are generic abstractions, each one a stylistic synthesis of a different historical period. They show a history which never existed. In Geographies of Power I disassemble these fictional structures block by block and recombine them to form other fictional structures. These new imaginary bridges do not need to pretend to connect anything. In fact, they can be impossible to build because they have never existed and never will. Excerpts form Geographies of Power, MFA Thesis Project, 2011.

Printmaking:Digital on Paper

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Size:72 W x 34 H x 0 D in

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