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[Rare Earth Sculptures] Terbium (archival poster I)
2015
[Rare Earth Sculptures] Terbium (archival poster I, 2015) forms part of the Rare Earth cycle of ENERGY⋮PANGEA. The work orchestrates a dynamic convergence of primal materials, speculative mysticism, and digital resonance: a Mud Owl nucleus sculpted from bay mud, enthroned in a 3D-printed nest, crowned by a Red Lizard Mustika pearl, and animated by Goch’s Terbium Energy Catalyst track through a vibration resonance speaker. Terbium, the rare earth element, operates here as both luminescent catalyst and metaphor for elusive energies moving through contested supply chains, shamanic talismans, and psytrance frequencies. The poster captures one facet of this sculptural system — first presented at Future Gallery, Berlin — where matter and consciousness entangle across distributed networks.
- Medium
- Archival Poster, Documentation Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Original work by Iain Ball / ENERGY⋮PANGEA, 2015. Minted 2025 as 1 of 1 archival poster in the ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive (contract: 0x9663df3b9541f882a43dd160396def7846c23749, Token ID: 8). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Manifold and Etherscan.
- Location
- Ethereum/Arweave
Notes
This piece might be titled "[Rare Earth Sculptures] Terbium (archival poster I)", created in 2015
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American · b. 1961

Dion creates assemblage and installation works that combine natural specimens, found materials, and pseudo-scientific taxonomy to produce objects that blur the boundary between artifact and relic, closely mirroring Ball's fusion of raw earth materials with speculative ritualistic framing.

Sigmar Polke
German · b. 1941

Polke obsessively investigated alchemical materials and rare earth pigments as active agents in his work, treating chemical and elemental substances with a mystical reverence that parallels Ball's use of Terbium as both literal catalyst and spiritual force.

Joseph Beuys
German · b. 1921

Beuys built a practice around primal organic materials like mud, fat, and felt as conductors of cosmic and social energy, directly echoing Ball's mud sculpted nucleus animated by vibrational resonance within a ritualistic object framework.
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