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Filthy Lucre by Karen Chappelow 88x131cm stretched canvas ready to hang

Money makes the world go round, money’s too tight to mention, filthy lucre are some of the responses given to me when I asked my peers what it meant to them, to society or the end game of having it. I’ve translated these responses as the Babel Fish does (he pops up in my work from time to time-and it’s his job to translate)..going from the cash and the words in relief in the chalice or wine glass in my case. Money can be used for good, for bad, it can change people’s lives, their personalities, their outlook in life and their physical bodies etc. It’s what we choose to do with it that is interesting. And Our perception of the world and the people that live in it can be changed by an absence of it and indeed too much of it. How much is enough?