ARTIST Rutherford Changs post-conceptual projects include a collection of 3,417 copies of the Beatles's 1968 album (WE BUY WHITE ALBUMS) and one of around 4,000 ink-dot portraits from The Wall Street Journal, put alphabetically into a yearbook-style publication (The Class of 2008).

Mr. Chang sadly passed away this January.

Artists Ezra Shibboleth and Pindar van Arman pay tribute to his work by taking care of the legacy of CENTS with Sovrn.art, an independent and artist-first platform.

Sovrn.art values artistic processes, meaningfully constructed serial collections, substantial narratives, structures that uphold the principles of sovereignty and decentralization and creators who advance the space. CENTS being definitely an example of this.

WORK CENTS explores value through the humble copper penny. Once essential, now dismissed as worthless. But pre-1982 cents, made of copper, are worth ~3.1¢ in metal. CENTS questions this gap between symbolic and material value

10,000 copper pennies were removed from circulation, documented and each image inscribed as an ordinal on 10,000 satoshis. The physical coins? Smelted into a single 68-pound copper block—an irreversible transformation from money to monument.

This copper block was 3D-scanned and inscribed as a 4MB ordinal, taking up all of Bitcoin block #839969. CENTS becomes a permanent digital sculpture. An immovable archive of value, scarcity and symbolic decay cast onto the blockchain forever.

COLLECTION Elegantly switching between the physical and the virtual while exploring the human perception of value in both realms, CENTS is perfectly fits the Copernicus Collection being one of the most relevant artworks in the Bitcoin blockchain.

EDITION 10.000

PRICE 0.00427 BTC (Bought by DAO-members)

WEBSITE https://www.sovrn.art/cents