Inspiration: The central element of this art piece is a rendition of the tally stick — an ancient device used to record debts between two parties.  A stick was marked to signify the debt, then broken and given to each party.  The larger half was given to the creditor and the short end given to the debtor (hence the saying “Short end of the stick“).  Similar to the private-key to public-key relationship of cryptography, only one pair could be combined to verify the debt.  In this regard, the tally stick represents sound money as opposed to not fully collateralized debt found in fractional reserve banking.