Description
This object is part of a series in which form and material are consciously explored and brought into meaning.
The piece consists of a gold structure enclosing a worn American quarter. The words LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST remain partially visible, while the surface of the coin carries clear traces of time and use.
The coin is no longer in circulation. Its economic function has been suspended. What once operated within a system of exchange and national identity is here fixed and repositioned as a sculptural object.
The surface retains signs of corrosion and wear. These traces are not removed, but preserved as evidence of contact, duration, and movement through different contexts—also beyond the system for which it was originally intended.
The post-colonial gold does not function as luxury. It acts as a frame and a connective element, placing the coin within a broader historical context in which value is not neutral, but shaped by systems of power, extraction, and ideology.
The inscriptions LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST remain visible, yet lose their certainty. They become part of an object in which meaning shifts—from belief to question.
Within the Post-Colonial Gold (PCGPUD) series, attention moves from monetary function to material presence and critical reflection.
A wearable object in which currency loses its role and becomes a visible construct.