Maya Kini
San Francisco, California

Palimpsest 1

24K gold wire map of the earth drawn from a coin ounce of pure gold.
4 x 8 feet (detail)

For the past seven months I have been working with one ounce of pure gold in an effort to understand both material meaning and sustainability in a metals context. The ounce has taken several forms at this point, the first of which was this map.