This project uses banknotes as a poetic platform to explore themes of invisibility, emotional labor, and quiet resistance in public life. The work involves circulating altered currency. Banknote, each carrying a single line of text, something between a whisper, a rumor, and a lived truth. These fragments, released into the world through everyday exchanges or anonymous placements, are meant to create small moments of recognition or disruption in the flow of daily transactions. The gesture is subtle, but intentional. It asks what is the value of an unheard story? How do we speak truths that are too risky to say aloud? In doing so, the project creates an ephemeral space for quiet truth to be held, passed on, and potentially heard by strangers.

Public Circulation:

The project begins with a set of altered banknotes, each carrying a single line typed by hand. These lines may emerge from my own writing or be gathered through interviews, inviting others—especially immigrants, those in caregiving roles, or anyone living in the margins of visibility—to contribute. The language is intimate and open ended: not declarations, but fragments, overheard thoughts, quiet truths. The notes are released into the world slowly, folded into tips, slipped into coat pockets, left between pages at a laundromat or library. Circulation becomes a form of storytelling, where the banknote acts both as carrier and encounter. Instead of prioritizing visibility or spectacle, the work leans into minor gestures: a dispersed form of distribution that depends on trust, slowness, and chance. In doing so, the project resists being a fixed object or a centralized message. It becomes a living system of exchange— one that asks what truths can move through ordinary hands, and how the most quiet stories might linger in unexpected places.