Columbus, extends the research of Displacement Line through the act of cutting currency, separating its symbols from the systems of power and value they represent. While Displacement Line extracts the eagle from U.S. quarter-dollar coins, Columbus removes Central America from a 1992 silver half-dollar commemorating the quincentenary of Columbus’s arrival in the Americas.

The extracted territory and the void it leaves behind become two interdependent forms, transforming currency into a metaphor for absence and historical memory. Through this gesture, the work connects colonial conquest and resource extraction with contemporary migration and dollarization, questioning how territory, history, and value are defined by structures of power.