Scratch Token

2022, 1:00 min video loop, lightbox. Commissioned by Salad, for A Modest Show (British Art Show 9). 

Depicting the inscription of a Roman numeral onto a whale vertebra, the film critiques speculative digital currency. It contrasts the material permanence of a biological relic against ephemeral crypto-assets, reframing the token as a tangible, laboured tally of time.
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