This is the master file for a laser cut print "FDIC Insured (America West Bank)" executed in an edition of 50 for the non profit organization No Longer Empty http://nolongerempty.com/ The red and black correspond to different laser strengths on the laser cutter I am using, but can be rendered in one color for aesthetics, etc.Since the beginning of the Great Recession the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has taken control of over 70 failed or failing banks. The government has bailed out, or brokered forced sales of a number of other major financial institutions. These emergency conversions are done in one weekend; on Friday the bank is alive, but at 6 PM it begins a massive autopsy, and by Monday morning all traces of the original bank are gone. It is operated under the name of a formal rival bank, many of the employees are gone, and the entire visual signage has changed. These logos disappear from our memory, they disappear from the clutter of the visual landscape, they are even erased from the Internet and its many archives.

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