Automorphic

Shot in reflection of a defunct iPad, splitting the screen, in-camera and out, this piece examines the "rare earths" or Lanthanide elements being mined at Mountain Pass in California, where tectonic upheaval undergirds the landscape.

(Commissioned by the GeoMedia Research Network, a collaboration between the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, and the Laboratory for Critical Technics, Arizona State University)

Premiere: MediaMatic Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2017