Trading Futures Photograph

This image of broken gold nest eggs is a visual disruption to the dehumanising constructs of metropolitan daily life, where commerce comes to dominate all endeavours. The fluidity of leaking gold eggs are symbolic of how power is distributed and the flow of economy travels insidiously throughout the world. These ruptured status symbols are a call to claim back an enriched sense of cultural and community environment that creates a sense of belonging. Ultimately, a more meaningful co-existence could be achieved, rather than this artificially constructed idea of us all as individuals, living within a fixed external value system, laid out in terms of gold. The title is inspired by the Futures Trading market where people are literally trading things that do not actually exist. Like weather, debt, food/grain (that hasn't been grown yet) etc… things that have no tangible evidence of existing, yet are traded anyway, according to agreed-upon monetary values. This digital financial fluidity where stocks appear and disappear, crash and flow on to influence real life outcomes is scary and fascinating because of the lack of transparency to the common working class person. I enlisted the colour Gold to reference the original template for evaluation - the Gold Standard, which is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold.

Photography:Color on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:0.4 W x 0.4 H x 0.1 D in

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