Spare Change

The artwork, Spare Change (2025), takes quite a political point of view by unpacking the value of money, in a South African context. How big companies like Eskom, Transnet and South African Airways mismanage money and do not deliver on their promises. It places a spotlight on how the love of money is placed above other people or even honesty. These big amounts of money are like “spare change” to the people who have a lot, but to those in need, it could mean everything. The coins are 3D-printed in plastic and then printed on paper “notes” to reduce the value of the coins even further.

The work focuses on the materiality of the medium, how everything is hebel, a Hebrew word that can mean “vapor” or “mist”; a striving after wind. It places itself in a moneyscape where the traces of transactions are lost. It is about where purpose is found and how materialism, money or power become idols in our lives.