B.Ling
Mooch Money
5 × 5 inches
Mixed Medium, double Sided Art Work
This hand-drawn work forms part of Ling’s ongoing exploration of Mooch Money—a speculative currency that exceeds the transactional value of pounds and dollars. Rendered with the immediacy of highlighters and mixed-media pens, the note functions simultaneously as artwork and artefact, collapsing the distance between design object and financial instrument.
The two faces of the piece activate a dialogue: one side asserts symbolic authority, while the reverse complicates it, exposing the performative labour of value-making. The neon marks and improvised linework suggest both play and urgency, positioning the note as an aesthetic refusal of economic standardisation.
As with Ling’s wider practice, Mooch Money destabilises the question of worth—what does it mean for an artwork to be “currency,” and what new economies of exchange emerge when art insists on being both tender and treasure?
B.Ling
Mooch Money
5 × 5 inches
Mixed Medium, double Sided Art Work
This hand-drawn work forms part of Ling’s ongoing exploration of Mooch Money—a speculative currency that exceeds the transactional value of pounds and dollars. Rendered with the immediacy of highlighters and mixed-media pens, the note functions simultaneously as artwork and artefact, collapsing the distance between design object and financial instrument.
The two faces of the piece activate a dialogue: one side asserts symbolic authority, while the reverse complicates it, exposing the performative labour of value-making. The neon marks and improvised linework suggest both play and urgency, positioning the note as an aesthetic refusal of economic standardisation.
As with Ling’s wider practice, Mooch Money destabilises the question of worth—what does it mean for an artwork to be “currency,” and what new economies of exchange emerge when art insists on being both tender and treasure?
