{"id":546,"date":"2009-01-17T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-01-17T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:35:00","slug":"comfort-with-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"comfort with money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pile-to-share.gif\" alt=\"pile-to-share\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pile-to-share.gif 500w, https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pile-to-share-300x168.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><em>Comfort with Money<\/em> involves making short stories and collages  that can be shared  physically and\/or digitally mixed with field recordings of spaces I encounter during the time of the residency.<\/p>\n<p>Physical cash seems very different than what may or may not be in my bank account. I knew a painter who showed me his wallet and beautiful bills from Fiji, his homeland. For a job, I once needed  $5000 in cash and the client&#8217;s bank gave it to me in fedpacks&#8230;as in The Fed. The bills were bundled and bound with wrappers like small paper bricks and I moved them in a cab instead of using the subway. <\/p>\n<p>Teenagers from the South Bronx painted the papers I am using for<em> Comfort with Money<\/em>. They enjoyed mixing the colors but could not value the pages. It feels like I have paper to spare or share and can create new value from a stack that I regard as unused money from a place of waste and resilience. I have read about men who live in economies that involve eight digit compensation packages but I find it hard to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>There are photos from my last meal with my father. At the time I was doing something silly with dumdum lollipops and we stacked the wrappers on the table as the candy disappeared.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/dumdum-desserts15-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dumdum-desserts15\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-576\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comfort with Money involves making short stories and collages that can be shared physically and\/or digitally mixed with field recordings of spaces I encounter during the time of the residency. Physical cash seems very different than what may or may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,42,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ww4","category-ww4-andrea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}