Digging:

From Wikipedia: Digging is actually the combination of two processes, the first being the breaking or cutting of the surface, and the second being the removal and relocation of the material found there.

TRISTAN DUKE: TRANSITIONAL LENSES

Patrick J. Reed
Issue: 60ScneSS292n

Artist Tristan Duke photographs the Placerita Oil Field and the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area using lenses made from frozen drinking water. Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, goes along for the ride.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • Visualization

Doctor, Doctor

Em Kettner
Issue: 921en3S26g25

The following story unfolds with a cadence all its own. It rewards the curious yet meets the overeager with a measured wait and see.

  • Digging
  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • The Body
Cover - The Erosion of Silicon Beach

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
Issue: 933c4igqn5gg XXL

The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
Multicolor singular disk with a cube pattern on it. Out of focus ocean and horizon background.

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
Issue: 933c4igqn5gg

discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
Close up of white mineral rock.

Anthropogenic Mineral Collection

Colleen Hargaden
Issue: q8S55gnn8981

In the fall of 2020, I began gathering samples for what I’ve termed an Anthropogenic Mineral Collection. These carbon-based minerals consist of human-mediated byproducts of geological intervention from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The majority of those in my collection are caused by industrial mining of valuable conductors, and have not been recorded elsewhere as natural occurrences.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • The Body
  • Visualization
A close- up of a graphically rendered teeth protruding a bronze mouth.

Spoils of a Lost Referent

Felipe Meres
Issue: 7e23c6 eSn84

Despite the conclusion, the museum continues to exhibit the sculpture, claiming that it has acquired a modern cultural identity that transcends “issues of origin and genuineness” and stands as an “icon of the ever-changing perceptions and connoisseurship in the field of pre-Columbian studies.”

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility