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My Precious, Rare Earth – Samsung Galaxy c2010

2018

Glass Crystal, Dichroic Lens

Installation size – L180 W180 H60mm

Glass – L110 W90 H60mm

Photographer - Russell Watson

The allure of a new phone comes from a contagious consumerist culture that has an insatiable appetite. Engineered with inbuilt obsolescence, mobile phones are fabricated from materials that are rare, non-renewable and harmful to both humans and the environment if buried in landfill. The manufacturing process uses valuable energy and emits greenhouse gasses that create toxic by-products. My Precious, Rare Earth – Samsung Galaxy c2010 explores the longevity of the things we manufacture on mass that have an engineered ‘shelf life’ of usability and their eventual re-appropriation by the environment.

Copper

Nickel

Silver

Gold

Palladium

Cobalt

Lithium

Lead

Tin

Zinc

REE (rare earth element)

Gallium

Indium

Iron