mel chin

Drawn Currency

Cell Death

Floe Fire

Signature Moment

Stranger Fruit

Vanitas

Empire’s End II

2007
ink on U.S. Currency
2 9/16 x 6 1/8 inches each

These are inverse responses to the selective erasures of existing iconography on U.S. currency in Erased Currency. In Drawn Currency the existing face value is obscured with an alternate narrative.