WRLDsAnalogii creates a new relationship between buyers and their objects, embedding meaning into the flow of currency.
We establish a story or theme each quarter, or four times a year. This story describes pivotal events in the markets that also impact us as a culture. We then select a series of found objects, as many as one per week. Each object has a current story and a pre-history, which reflects the current state of our financial markets and the objects we have found useful in the past.
We deposit gold on each historical object. The gold transforms the object into a direct form of currency. It shifts the role of the object from use-value to exchange value. At the same time, because the gold deposit sits upon a historical object, it embeds history into currency; allowing meaning to remain embedded in the flow of valuations.
We have created a unique method for purchasing and owning these objects, which also reflects methods used in the financial markets. This is a playful approach to learning about the financial markets, based on gaming practices, barter, and exchange.
You purchase an option on an object which allows you to bid on it, during open bidding. There is only one owner per object: the winning bidder. There are multiple objects within a given theme, (such as The Golden Sieve). Owners of objects can barter and exchange objects with other owners within the same series, while the theme is still active.
All monies received from options are used to purchase additional objects, as well as fund research on maintaining transparency in the financial markets.
The number of found objects during the theme are limited to the stories shelf life, or period it is available.
We hope you will love the objects and the stories as much as we do, and embrace this new form of free-market expression.
