Return with a Billet Economy!

For Drive By Art Show LA, 2020, a banner campaign for returning with an economy based on billets and borosilicate, made with chalk and paint on paper, approx 9'x6' each....1818 Glendale Blvd, 90026

How opaque and reflective our glass world is right now, and how much more "dark , salt, clear, moving, utterly free" it could be when we return. We'd be better off returning to a billet or boro economy after this pandemic is over, an economy in which the unit of exchange is glass, either billet (the glass blocks that get melted down to be cast into forms) or borosilicate tube (the glass lampworkers use to create forms) so that the currency is in itself filled with endless potential for form. Neither billet nor boro is a limp stand-in for action, but a latent expression of action; and recycled action no less! I like the play on associations of bills and borrowing these words bring up and I like how there is no dearth of bling to either material. They are by no means austere. So these drawings of sparkling glass billets and boro tubes of various shapes and sizes, with some quotes and notes sprinkled in, is a rough early campaign for A Glass Economy.*