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[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lutetium (HYPER ACCUMULATOR I) (1/25 edition)
2014
[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lutetium (HYPER ACCUMULATOR I, 2017) is a 1/25 edition archival poster from Iain Ball’s ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive. The work documents a reverse-engineered hyperdimensional polytope based on 2D designs by Jonathan Bowers, 3D modelled by Clifford Sage, then 3D printed in nylon, coloured, renamed Hyper-Accumulator, and inserted into various environments by ENERGY⋮PANGEA. The poster layers a vibrant toucan (bearing the project title and a 3D-printed beak) above the intricate reverse-engineered polytope, adding another layer of environmental signalling and interface penetration. The object infiltrates and transmutes every substrate it encounters, turning the poster itself into a live node that continues to propagate the sculptural system across digital, physical, and speculative networks.
- Medium
- Archival Poster from 3D-Printed Sculpture, Documentation Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
- Edition
- 1 of 25
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball, 2017, as part of the Lutetium reverse-engineering project within the Rare Earth Sculptures cycle of ENERGY⋮PANGEA. Minted as 1 of 25 ERC-721 edition on Ethereum via Manifold (Token ID: 4140753136) in the ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive contract. Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Manifold and Etherscan.
- Location
- Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave
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Collectors with works by Iain Ball
Artists in conversation
Tavita Faleolo
Faleolo merges digital fabrication with archival documentation practices, producing edition based works that blur the boundary between physical objects and their photographic relics in ways that closely mirror Ball's layered poster documentation strategy.
Morehshin Allahyari
Iranian · b. 1985
Allahyari uses 3D printing as a conceptual and political medium, embedding meaning into fabricated sculptural forms and their documentation, sharing Ball's approach of treating the printed object and its archival trace as equally significant artistic outputs.
Joshua Harker
American · b. 1971
Harker creates intricate hyperdimensional and mathematically complex sculptural forms through 3D printing, often presented as limited edition collectible works, directly paralleling Ball's use of polytope geometry and nylon printed structures as the conceptual core of the piece.
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