Elegy for Ice, exhibited at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, is a system that collects real-time weather data from Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park and transcodes it into a signal. This signal passes through an electromechanical and chemical process before entering a procedurally generated ocean simulation, where it drives wind patterns, wave heights, and turbulence.
Before reaching the ocean, the signal interacts with an "ore" chemically refined from e-waste metals and minerals, including gold, palladium, coltan, and neodymium. Additionally, the signal powers a continuous chemical process that grows a copper ring, displayed in an antique ring box once owned by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society.
Drawing inspiration from alchemical traditions, Elegy for Ice merges real-time environmental data and procedural simulations, offering a reflection on the intricate interplay between natural forces and human technology.
