¢urrēns
- Latin, present participle of currere “to travel through”;
the sense of flow or current, extended by John Locke in 1699 to “circulation of money.”
SALT JOURNEY: SALARY (Animation Detail)
¢urrēns is a body of work that encompasses a series of animated media vessels as installations and an animated film currently in production. The project explores the history of currency and its journey through the landscape. The root of its concept is how value is abstracted as time progresses and its connection with the origins of currency within the landscape versus today’s digital era. The “media vessels” around each animation are designed to create the sensation of passage through each chapter’s experience.The project is considered a form of modular storytelling — as each chapter represents a form of currency from the past, and can be installed non-linearly. These series of vignettes journey through time and economic value systems: deconstructing the meaning of currency in various forms. Currently, animated chapters include themes of "“Salt” and “Gold” and “Tulips”
GOLD: Journey to the Center
28” (W) x 70” (H) x 14” (D)
4-Channel Animation, Mixed-Media Monitor Vessel, and Raspberry Pi’s
SALT JOURNEY : Salary
34” (W) x 24” (H) x 11” (D) and 44” (W) x 31” (H) x 17” (D)
2-Channel Animation Installation, Mixed-Media Monitor & Projection Mapping Vessels at
SALT JOURNEY: SALARY is part of a time-based multimedia project series, ¢urrēns, that explores the history of currency and its journey through the landscape. This work is inspired by how salt has been used as a form of currency (the root word for salary), its immeasurable value in terms of human survival, and journey to acquire deep within the earth... in this instance through a fabricated salt mine.
Tulip Bubble
36” (W) x 29” (H) x 15” (D)
1-Channel Animation Installation, Mixed-Media Monitor Vessel
2019