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[Rare Earth Sculptures] Praseodymium (Intracrine signal VI, 2016) #28
2016
[Rare Earth Sculptures] Praseodymium (Intracrine signal VI, 2016) is a 1/1 archival poster from the Praseodymium series. It documents one of the key sculptural installations in the Rare Earth Sculptures project — a large-scale outdoor psychotechnical artefact designed for the transmission and reception of paranoid signals intelligence (P-SIGINT). The work explores themes of mass surveillance, psychological warfare, narrative collapse, and technological control.
- Medium
- Archival Poster, Documentation Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball / ENERGY⋮PANGEA, 2016. Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum in the ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive (contract: 0x9663df3b9541f882a43dd160396def7846c23749, Token ID: 28). 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] Praseodymium (Intracrine signal VI, 2016) #28", created in 2016
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Luc Tuymans
Belgian · b. 1958
Tuymans paints solitary figures and interior scenes with muted, desaturated palettes that generate quiet psychological unease, closely mirroring Ball's intimate figurative approach and unsettling domestic tension.
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish · b. 1864
Hammershøi's hushed interior scenes featuring solitary figures, restrained earthy tones, and a melancholic stillness directly parallel Ball's themes of solitude, domesticity, and Northern European realist sensibility.
Peter Doig
British · b. 1959
Doig shares Ball's richly layered paint surfaces, warm yet psychologically charged atmosphere, and contemporary figurative approach rooted in Northern European painterly traditions while maintaining an expressive personal mark.
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