If You Think You Understood Me Then Misspoke (Seignorage)

If You Think You Understood Me Then I Misspoke Part 3: Seignorage, Digital Video with Sound, 2014, TRT 7:24.

The video is of a fancy still life placed inside a mirrored box that rotates around the camera. The text in the video and title come from a quote from Alan Greenspan. Once while testifying in front of congress a legislator said to the famously inscrutable Alan Greenspan ” I think I am starting to understand you.” Greenspan jokingly replied “If you think you understand me then I misspoke.”

The editing pattern is a visual diagram of the open market operations between the Federal Reserve and US Treasury that would be could be done to erase the budget deficit via a minted platinum coin.