The two pieces of visual artwork I produced in 2009 from this project were intimately related. After collecting and recording the pennies from that year, I decided to adhere the coins in an end-to-end fashion so that the rim of the coins was the only aspect visible. I arranged the coins in a chronological fashion showing the slow transformation of the pennies through history.

 

This piece entitled Entropy Column was to be the first of many built through the years as I continued to collect pennies with each year having its own column.
As a product of the Entropy Column construction I began creating hi-resolution photo scans of certain pennies. The images selected were the coins that I could not distinguish their year of mint. This process would lead to my future obsession with scanning certain coins that I felt were aesthetically interesting. Below are the first four images from the original fourteen images from the end of time (2009).