Profit Trails presents four synchronized streams of financial data, tracing the live performance of selected corporations (XOM, BAYRY, CVX, BTU), representing key actors within extractive and energy-intensive industries. Each trajectory subtly reshapes drifting condensation trails, merging atmospheric imagery with the logic of market fluctuation. The work unfolds as a quiet tension between abstraction and reference, where economic movement leaves transient imprints — visible, yet elusive.

Ticker Beast and Profit Trails were developed alongside Perpetuum Inefficiens, extending its exploration of economic systems into distinct perceptual registers.