Coins are pretty neat looking, if you ask me; I love all of their little idiosyncrasies. German-based designer Andre Levy has painted smattering of currencies in his series Tales You Lose (clever title!). He doesn’t just colorize the portraits already on coins, but paints figures in popular culture on these small objects. More about his series:
We are constantly surrounded by pop figures – in films, in music, comics, and even in gossip magazines. They are sometimes our escape from reality, our fantasies. Coins portray something opposite: the real, the everyday.
This project is about individual expression in opposition to massified thinking, about how our personal passions are more worthy than things that are imposed to us. The paint brings to the faces of kings and presidents borrowed narratives from other famous characters and unleash individual alternative stories.
Check out the Tales You Lose website for me. There are so many good coins on there!
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