Interview with J. S. G. Boggs

Abstract

In January of this year, the artist J.S.G. Boggs printed 900 one-dollar bills, which he then spent to rent a booth at a paper-money collectors convention. The convention organizer then went out and put them into general circulation by passing them on to others who would spend them further all across America. For some time, I had been interested in Boggs’ work and his lengthy disagreement with government offcials over his currency series. Upon hearing the news of this mass act of civil disobedience, I could no longer resist satisfying my curiosity. I wanted to meet the man waho, depending on whom you speak with, is either a mad, a con-artist or both. I found something other in him, and I hope the record of this brief encounter will help reveal the human being who lives this painfully slow-moving legal drama daily.