A series of works made using recycled copper, acid and printing techniques. 

This series of works explored ideas of value, pattern making, materials and money. The pattern is based on the ‘guilloche’ patterns seen on money, as well as on other important documents that hold ‘invisible’ influence on our lives (passports, visas, certificates, and so on). Their symmetry and complexity however also recalls the image of the mandala, or traditional pattern making, which historically had a religious function. I digitally recreated a series of these patterns and printed them onto sheets of recycled copper that I had chemically treated. Copper itself is one of the most ancient materials to be used as a form of money, although it is now more often used in electronics and the transmission of signals on a circuit board, and is now an essential material if societies are to make a transition to green technology.