Pocket Money II, 2019.

Tased copper coins and Lichtenberg figures on wood, one of four wooden platforms, plexiglass cover with cut-out circles, 125 x 130 cm.

For Pocket Money II (2019) I threw my daily amount of change onto a wooden surface, prepared with a saline solution, and then ‘zapped’ each of the coins by means of a high-voltage circuit. The wooden plates were subsequently placed together to form a platform floor, protected by a plexiglass cover, with cut-out circles, into which the zapped copper coins were placed. The result resembles a recovered piece of a catastrophic event, displaying the material evidence of a violent and peculiar accident in an almost archaeological way.