With increasing frequency, technologies and methods for visualization, sonification, calculation, mapping, prediction and simulation serve as a conduit for our interactions with Earth. Geological resources, formally mapped through surveys and field observation, are now studied through advanced remote sensing technologies. As a result, through and in media we understand the planet as an object to form cognitive, practical and emotional relationships with. For example, nations define oceans through a process that begins on land. Based on a mass of observations and data points, the precise boundary between saltwater and solid ground is determined, as well as what populates an ocean and how.

Combining moving-image, the re-use of decommissioned agricultural glass - the artist's sister's old greenhouse glass and sculptural installation, in fracture zones explores similar x, y coordinated data assemblages to consider how extractive industry transforms territories into readable maps of prospective resources.

in fracture zones is a research outcome of Leitrim Sculpture Centre's Landscape, Ecology and Environment Research artist residency (LEER), 2022.

Kindly supported by Leitrim Sculpture Centre and the Arts Council of Ireland.