Washing Powder

Private Collection. Since 1971, the criminalisation of plants has enriched cartels, banks and big pharma, empowering the military/police industrial complex while demonising the sick and vulnerable. According to the Open Society Foundation this illegal market turns over more than $330 billion annually while the ‘War on Drugs’ costs the American government $100 billion a year. In 2012 HSBC was fined over $1 billion for enabling this market.

Artists bio: Psyfer was born in 1991 in Hammersmith and studied Politics at Newcastle University. He is fascinated by the semiotics of power, the numerical language of value and the evolving field of digital numismatics. He supports open-source software and the democratization of information. Psyfer lives and works in London.