Captured Liberty WS-123 SculpturalRing one transparent cord with one

one transparent cord with one bead becomes a single focus point

pale and materially insistent

The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be separated from the economic and colonial systems that enabled their movement

This building was her childhood home and a housing complex for Vietnamese contract workers in East Germany

Captured Liberty WS-123 SculpturalRing one transparent cord with oneDescriptionThis 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