TOOLS is a personal research project, intrigued by the ideology of the artist and socialist William Morris (1834-1896) and his ideas on craft, nature and simple life, I began to make a series of drawings that are related with the legacy of Morris. By drawing I explored my own neighbourhood for connections with his concept. During the next step I scaled and mixed the drawings so they would fit on a two-euro coin. I screen-printed the drawings with two colours. Using a hammer and a wad punch - an old hand tool intended for producing small leather washers- I hit the miniatures out of sticker paper and pasted them on two-euro coins. The end result consists of 117 different miniatures, in an edition of 1000.

The launch of TOOLS took place at district office East in Amsterdam. The TOOLS-coins were available, with a guide, in exchange to the intrinsic value of their carrier, two euro.