Untitled (6/13 Rewilded Dollar, Viriditas Series), 2025
US dollars, paste
2.61" x 6.14"
Rewilded Dollars, Viriditas Series
US dollars, paste
2024-ongoing
The design of US legal tender has been altered several times over the past century. With each redesign, classical plant motif has replaced with rectilinear form, blank space, larger presidential heads.
This emerging body of work imagines the opposite trend: dollar as pictorial garden of lush olive and acanthus burying political figures, state buildings and slogans in non-fungible verdant abundance.
This project is in progress and will include a book and multi-material installation (paper, ceramic, plant). The book will be released in 2027 by Seaton Street Press. and will include interviews with leaders in reparations and land back initiatives, supported by the Leeway Foundation Art + Change grant.
“...questioning the inherent nature of currency (e.g., the dollar as an invention) inspires an ethos of “rewilding”—both of currency and our mental frameworks for understanding what a more humane and repair-based future may look like.”