Tech Geodes

mixed media, various dimensions, 2005-21

Unrestrained global consumption of technologiocal devices, produced in staggering quantities and quickly obsolete, has led to a tremendous backlog of things that are not easily recyclable or reuseable. In the absence of comprehensive and legislated right-to-repair programs, and modular designs allowing dismantling and re-purposing of electronic and mechanical parts, devices are neither repaired nor modified to extend their useful lives; the majority are broken up for precious metals and the rest scrapped, plowed into landfill and forgotten.

A future archaeology of our present era may discover that some abandoned devices have, through processes of concretion, mineralization and agglomeration, become embedded in calcereous or conglomerate masses, forming rough spheres. These, when split open and polished like mineral geodes, are shown to contain examples of long-dead and abandoned technology from our hyper-productive age.