Wednesday, October 2, 2019

currency

So excited about how this piece turned out. It's entitled "If you got the money honey,...". It's 7" x 7" and will go into an 11" x 11" frame. There is a total of 20 elements to this piece; 17 of which are pieces of American currency. I had to obtain older versions of the $10 bill, because the profile of Hamilton on contemporary versions is too large. Of the common bills, only Hamilton is facing left. The two dark squares on the upper and lower portions of the piece are the cut-out portions through which you see the presidential profiles. This piece is a bit of departure form my normal "surreal narrative" compositions, in that it is a bit more "design-y". I've also tried to create a bit of tension between symmetry and asymmetrical components.