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[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lutetium (INGRESS-REPORT I) (1/25 edition)
2017
[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lutetium (INGRESS-REPORT 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 Ingress-Report, 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 layers 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: 4140749040) 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
Notes
This piece might be titled "[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lutetium (INGRESS-REPORT I)", created in 2017
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Refik Anadol
Turkish American · b. 1985

Anadol merges data driven digital structures with physical installation and archival documentation, closely paralleling Ball's approach of bridging hyperdimensional 3D geometry with printed material artifacts and environmental insertion. Both artists treat computational form as a living archive that crosses between digital and physical realms.
Harm van den Dorpel
Dutch · b. 1981
Van den Dorpel is a pioneering NFT and blockchain based artist who layers complex visual systems with conceptual archival logic, directly mirroring Ball's use of Ethereum NFTs as documentation relics alongside physical printed matter. His work similarly interrogates the ontological status of digital objects across multiple material formats.
Bathsheba Grossman
American · b. 1966
Grossman specializes in translating complex mathematical polytopes and higher dimensional geometry into 3D printed sculptural objects, sharing Ball's core methodology of materializing abstract hyperdimensional forms through additive manufacturing. Her practice directly engages the same mathematical source vocabulary of polytope geometry used in this specific work.
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