WANDA GILLESPIE
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A Counting Frame for Circular Economies

Cedar, Stainless Steel, Oil
1800 x 1600 x 100mm
2022

A Counting Frame for Circular Economies begins with the question of how to values what is immeasurable. Do we calculate the dollar value of mangrove forests and pollinators for their thankless contributions to life and economic systems? Is the attempt to do so possible or just absurd?

Wanda Gillespie's abacus gestures to literal methods of counting, implying a slow, tactile labour that offers and alternative to the fast-paced and self-effacing (under)world of stocks, bonds and synthetic debt, inequality indexes and interest rates. It's interior steel frame, along with the individual hand-carved timber beads slide, is wrought to recall patterns in nature like the golden ratio and fibonacci spiral, and the innumerable systems that play a role in the continued cycling forth of life.

​While these systems might be beyond remuneration (a living wage for bees would be an absurd proposal). the work might make us think of other measures, such as a universal basic income, or a toxicity tax for polluting corporations, that remain well within the limits of the doable, and the new metrics of value they entail.

Wonderful words by Constance Brown.

Wanda Gillespie


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  • Portfolio
    • Counting Frames for a Transient Era
    • Mist Dweller and Abacus
    • A Counting Frame for Circular Economies
    • Truth Teacher
    • Counting Frames
    • Boy Looking Up
    • A Counting Frame for Alternative Economies
    • A Counting Frame for Future Beings
    • Higher Thinking
    • Higher Thought Forms
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculator with Gumnut and Sheoak
    • Higher Consciousness Integrating Calculators
    • Levitation Practice
    • The Ceremonial Processions of Dreamers
    • The Antarctic Kingdom of Gondwanaland
    • The Island of Tana Swiwi
  • About
    • CV
    • Writing
  • News
    • Links and reviews
  • Contact