Twenty Seven Conversations

Twenty-Seven Conversations is a ceramic installation exploring cobalt's relationship to craft traditions, mineral extraction, industrial infrastructure, and contemporary computational systems.

Comprising 27 suspended cobalt-blue and white ceramic serving platters, the installation takes its numerical reference from cobalt's atomic number. Each platter carries imagery that brings historical ornament into conversation with contemporary systems of representation, data, and technology. Through these objects, the work traces cobalt's movement from ceramic pigment to a critical mineral in contemporary industrial and technological systems. The installation considers how materials, images, and systems of knowledge circulate, transform, and acquire new meanings over time.

Twenty-Seven Conversations extends beyond the physical installation through two digital experiments: Kobold Ore-acle and Agent Alice Chaos.

Kobold Ore-acle draws on cobalt's mineral histories, folklore, and the language of extraction. Agent Alice Chaos explores computational classification, prediction, and the construction of knowledge about possible futures.

Accessed through the installation, these projects introduce additional voices and forms of interpretation, extending the conversation between material histories and contemporary technological development.