Leverage is a time-based collage study of the boom-and-bust housing market. Using appropriated imagery from the construction and finance industries, I sought to explore the strange metaphysics that are unleashed with the collision of these two parallel universes. On one side are interest rates, equity, loan docs, and the time-value of money; on the other are the tangible yet mutable forms of building materials: concrete, plywood, chain link. The video explores the interplay of temptation, evasion, and decay that form the narrative of a bubble in continual collapse and renewal.