Shredded Money Paintings

The Money Series
Shredded Money Triptych – each painting 38×50″ (includes custom aluminum frame)

What is worth? What is money? How is money represented by a precious metal? What is value? What is a greenback, and why isn’t it always green? What is the gold standard? And why do some people want that ‘standard’ back? Why is our economy going to collapse and what does that look like? What happens when too much money is made? Who shreds money? Did you shred money? Is the shredded money a metaphor?  And what really happens when we fall off a fiscal cliff?! What is this worth?

This Germano Celant-esque rant of questions has been rattling through my head recently. With the economy seeming to be the biggest discussion at the moment I have started a group of paintings loosely titled ‘The Money Series’. My goal was to try and grasp an understanding of the metamorphic nature of the economy, its language and terms.

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