Twelve white-glazed ceramic eggs scattered through-out the rooms formerly occupied by a Swiss bank. Each egg is hollow. Each one sealed. Stamped onto the delicate surface of each: a unique string of characters—a public key to a Bitcoin address containing one million Satoshis (0.01 BTC).
Inside each egg, inserted through a narrow slit, are twelve numbered metal coins, each engraved with a single word. Together, these words constitute the private key corresponding to the public one legible on the outside.
To access the key—and the digital currency stored within—the ceramic egg must be broken open. Smashed like a piggy bank. Retrieving the coins and reconstructing the key entails the destruction of the object.
As with much of Marti’s work, this gesture is precise but also open-ended. This is sculpture that holds a system. The familiar form of the egg—a symbol of origin and potential—is transformed into a kind of vault: a site layered with both literal and symbolic notions of value.
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