TOOLS started as an artistic research project, intrigued by the ideology of the artist and socialist William Morris (1834–1896). Based on his ideas on craft, nature and simple life, Mariëlle Videler explored her own neighbourhood for connections with his ideas. She made a series of drawings related to the legacy of Morris.

In the next step, she scaled the drawings and transformed them into patterns so they would fit on a two-euro coin, and then screen-printed them in two colours. Using a hammer and a wad punch — an old hand tool originally intended for producing small leather washers — she punched the miniatures out of sticker paper and pasted them onto two-euro coins.

The result is a series of 117 different miniatures, in an edition of 1.000. Each TOOLS-coin was exchanged for a regular two-euro coin.