Ore
title: Shelfmark - 285.ZINE.POLYVIOU
description: So often we view the land as a “resource” - something from which we can extract value. We reduce terrain to it’s component parts; it is parcelled off; catalogued; priced; sold. Despite increasing awareness of the unfolding ecological crisis on our planet, NASA are inviting commercial partners to join them in a mission to mine the moon. It seems odd to me to be able to look at the moon and see only untapped minerals. I wanted to look at the landscape through this cold, calculating gaze. To render it alien, unfamiliar again. In fact, bathed in unnatural light, despite the post-apocalyptic overtones, a strange beauty endures in these darkened landscapes. Skies darken to a chemical haze; black rocks become glittering ore; water becomes a liquid metal. They reflect the tension between the constituent and the aggregate: between the mineral - that which humans seek to separate out; and the landscape - resistant, whole.
publisher: Foxtrot Lightning Publications
date: 2020
format: Full colour pages with metallic paper cover