Deconstructing currency significance through cleansing

Define: a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another

This performance entails the methodical and careful labor of cleaning coins and paper banknotes. This performance incorporates the gestures and meanings that are implied in the cleaning/handling /relationship of currencies.
A “Fiduciary Receiver” will accept currencies from the Public for cleansing. The Fiduciary Receiver will record the discriminating details of the currency (i.e. serial numbers, series number, etc) and pass it on to the cleansing team. The bill will pass through a cleansing circuit. Beginning with the sudsy washing and rinsing of the bills, they then pass on to the next performer that will wring water from the paper currency; a final performer will hang the bills out to dry. A “Fiduciary Dispensor” will mark the currency prior to its return to differentiate it from other common bills that have not been subjected to cleaning.
Myriad meanings reveal themselves through these actions. The act of applying domestic labor activities to the currencies creates a conflict with their origins. Domestic labors like washing & cleaning originate in the home and are not generally associated with compensation; they exist as efforts at maintenance of the basic human needs of food, clothing and shelter.  The focus of cleaning an object that has no intrinsic value questions our relationship with labor, currency, and extrinsic value.
By cleaning, we question the sterility of money as it passes through many anonymous hands. By cleaning, we infer that the money is not clean to begin with. By cleaning we imply hope for a new beginning. By cleaning, we increase the value of the currency through the application of labor. By cleaning, we question the relationship of people to their accepted medium of exchange. By returning the cleansed currency to its owner, we ask the owner to question their relationship to all currency, cleansed or not.

The phrase “hung out to dry” comes to the fore