Money made out of money | Esteban Álvarez

One hundred pesos bill made out of slices of different bills circulating. 2015.
Fifty pesos bill made out of slices of different bills circulating. 2015.
Twenty pesos bill made out of slices of different bills circulating. 2015.
Ten pesos bill made out of slices of different bills circulating. 2015.
Five pesos bill made out of slices of different bills circulating. 2015.
Two pesos bill made out of slices of different bills circulating. 2015.

More money with money

This project aims to create resources on the basis of the same resources, in other words: to make money using money.

Banknotes are wrinkled, grimy, drawn, written, maimed and broken. Anyway, they have the same value, and nobody cares or you may not notice if lack them a small slice. With hundreds of these missing thin slices taken from different notes I made more banknotes.

For about a year, I was cutting and removing a small slice to each banknote that passed through my hands, taking each a thin slice to preserve it as material for this work, then gluing the two remaining parts to use it again, so each slightly mutilated banknote follow their course with the same value.