Gyre (Typhon)
BY SCOTT BENZEL






Banded Stacks in Acrylic Case
(Edition of 12)
Uncut Sheets in Rigid Toploader
(Edition of 50)
Gyre (Typhon) by artist Scott Benzel, is a speculative paper currency pegged to the Gyre index which tracks shadow economies, visualizing symbolic quasi- and hyper-objects that we interface with knowingly and unknowingly: dark pools, the Falcon and its widening gyre, the Typhon. The currency is derrived from printing plates by Benzel and references the process of the artist/counterfeiter played by Willem Dafoe in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), the mythical chimera the Basilisk, the closed time-like curves of a Gödel universe, and the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope.
Risograph-printed in Midnight, Light Gray, White, Yellow, Blue, and Violet inks on Neenah Astroparche Gray 60t.
Banded stacks bound with Neenah UV Ultra II and enclosed in collector’s acrylic case. Uncut sheet 11x14” in collector’s rigid toploader.
Includes numbered certificate of authenticity with notes by the artist.
Risograph-printed in Midnight, Light Gray, White, Yellow, Blue, and Violet inks on Neenah Astroparche Gray 60t.
Banded stacks bound with Neenah UV Ultra II and enclosed in collector’s acrylic case. Uncut sheet 11x14” in collector’s rigid toploader.
Includes numbered certificate of authenticity with notes by the artist.