I'M STAYING Currency prints
Digital Print
84 x 59cm
2018

In 2014 I commenced my long term project titled I’M STAYING which was initially a large scale public neon also reading I’M STAYING which travelled democratically around the city of Bristol moving quarterly over 2 and a half years. While the neon traveled around the city of Bristol, I undertook the intervention of stamping a certain amount of the independent currency titled Bristol Pound, with a red I’M STAYING ink stamp. This allowed the neon and the stamped currency to travel around the city at the same time. In 2018, for Sculpture in the City the I’M STAYING neon arrived at Leadenhall Market, in the 'City of London', known as the historic financial district. I instigated to repeat the same intervention. After an email correspondence with the Bank of England my proposal to stamp the Pound Sterling was rejected. I have since designed a custom note titled I’M STAYING Currency, which includes design and layout references from Sterling, Euro, Leadenhall Market, the neon and online searches for images depicting democracy.