Currency c. mid 20th century

This piece called "Currency" was made by Angas or Afo out of iron. Just look at that beautiful rust color. It looks like the earth, like something ancient. I can imagine the artist, whoever they were, hammering and shaping this iron, feeling its weight and resistance, maybe even sweating a bit. The texture is so important here – it's not smooth or perfect, but rough and uneven. The metal has a history. There's an intriguing shape there, too: a rounded rectangle with little horizontal protrusions at the top, and then that spike pointing upward. What did it mean to make this? Maybe it was like making meaning itself, hammering out value in a world that always seems to be changing. Artists and creators, we're always trying to make something real, something that lasts. We are all just talking to each other.