the money project

I am interested in the camera as a enigmatic object. How is its use among us in the MoneyProject unknowingly affected (or infected) by those things inherent in the history of the object's development, and the composite of human relations that makes it's (the camera's) objecthood possible? We do not necessarily know the full weight of the tool we use. Can we really reduce it to how we use it?

Re: money itself. When in Europe, the popular metal for coinage became gold it fueled Columbus's torturous and murderous tirade in the Caribbean looking for a metal that was not readily available. According to Howard Zinn, he cut off the hands of Arawaks who failed to bring him gold, and eventually genocided them. Whole mountain sides were destroyed looking for gold. Now money is made of cheap materials and proliferates, it's not grounded in the earth, but in the abstraction of human relationships. Now the project is to concentrate that which is readily available, to constantly shift the meaning of quantity where $100 was a lot of money, and now $1,000,000 doesn't seem like that much. It is to make rare something that could be everywhere.