Caput

Caput means head, but sounds the same as kaput, meaning something is finished in a terminal sense. This helmet pretends that you can divide up, conquer, and possess the world and its resources; the wearer becomes the center of that world. The coins, mainly from colonizing countries, hover around the globe-like head piece to create a sort of protective barrier. The currency, made of repurposed maps, represents individual countries and the wealth they have accrued by claiming ownership. The coins reach out into space, the actual boundary for our species, the next place to colonize. While this piece was made before the Titan submersible event, it reinforces the false equation of money = protection.