2140 recasts a British twenty-pound note as a piece of Bitcoin-era currency. Queen Elizabeth II occupies the green engraved panel on the right, but brilliant red laser beams shoot from her eyes, turning the familiar portrait into an icon of internet culture and speculative futurism.
Orange fields on the left are crowded with Bitcoin symbols, security bands, pseudo-official seals and the conspicuous value “£21.40.” Institutional phrases have been rewritten to invoke a digital currency bank and a decentralized future, while the conventional promise to pay remains embedded in the parody.
The title points toward 2140, the year commonly associated with the mining of Bitcoin’s final fraction. By combining royal authority, central-bank aesthetics and decentralized money, the image stages a comic contradiction: an old monetary order transformed into a certificate for the system imagined to replace it.