# [Rare Earth Sculptures] Cerium, 2012 By [ENERGY⋮PANGEA: Legacy Archive](https://paragraph.com/@energypangea) · 2025-09-19 rare earth sculptures, cerium, energy pangea, eco-art, post-industrial aesthetics, environmental consciousness, speculative technology, geothermal energy, portland art scene, hyperdimensional oscillator --- ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/7c8ef188e9ffdbe15b67f970af89ba16af9db856d07426468eae59111ae613b7.png) [_Lifesaver Systems_](http://www.lifesaversystems.com/4000-bottle#.VdCaZlNViko)_™_ [_4000UF Lifesaver bottle_](http://www.lifesaversystems.com/4000-bottle#.VdCaZlNViko)_™, sulphur, filtered tapwater,_ [_Lifetechnology_](http://www.lifetechnology.com/products/the-hyperdimensional-oscillator)_™_ [_Hyperdimensional Oscillator_](http://www.lifetechnology.com/products/the-hyperdimensional-oscillator)_™_[_,_](http://www.lifetechnology.com/products/the-hyperdimensional-oscillator) _aluminium, galvanized steel, timber_ ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8f3659e0bb974d0935eadc7b2707f377659f3ba00899672236e35128e94f2657.png) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1c64d11055b5e35706f2a4368486a0877c7fbb0617fafc00e9801360dbcd4af0.png) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d66897fa456a97e47a3576dbc38f90040d8354f14fae21d7dab09b2f98c1d8bc.jpg) [ Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) I -------------------------------------- Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) Originally exhibited at Appendix Project Space, Portland, CERIUM explores the intersections of ecology, technology, and consciousness through a sculptural device that reimagines survival tools as mediators of environmental and psychic states. Incorporating a Lifesaver Systems™ water bottle, sulphur, filtered tap water, a hyperdimensional oscillator, and structural elements of metal and timber, the work functions as a meta-filtration system. https://manifold.xyz ![Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) I](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3857927ff4eba5d2faff34a56f39a3894db31c220e394c2ca5386b929bf22212.jpg) ](https://manifold.xyz/@iainball/id/4156182768) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/aa7576cc60e5ade1af5e0586d455120b0e4ecc3e4093b974e7d0a34c8578e390.png) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1e47055eb8e9a7c780a6d915abf58a5a5eb1fa6775810c3d620293ca001ae32b.jpg) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6e714524c507812c8a0b72c81eca72d865f72892fda7dcf6f756523db6c4a2a1.jpg) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/531b43072f28152fae4afa3461f0a6835df44ce8a36615f66afca475a5eec789.jpg) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2df5336cdad8cbe2d6cdbf9f7ed89e123cf6cbaaa7a76a479fa7114a4d98d441.jpg) [ Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) II --------------------------------------- Originally exhibited at Appendix Project Space, Portland, CERIUM explores the intersections of ecology, technology, and consciousness through a sculptural device that reimagines survival tools as mediators of environmental and psychic states. Incorporating a Lifesaver Systems™ water bottle, sulphur, filtered tap water, a hyperdimensional oscillator, and structural elements of metal and timber, the work functions as a meta-filtration system. https://manifold.xyz ![Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) II](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/746b98061b6adb3e2544d0563bbcc3d725a10a85a7957ab071ce81e188f52492.jpg) ](https://manifold.xyz/@iainball/id/4156272880) Originally released by [Appendix Project Space](http://main.appendixspace.com/Iain-Ball) in July 2012, E N E R G Y⋮P A N G E A has taken account of the wider circumstances which extend out from the site of the exhibition space and beyond. Compelled into rising states of efficiency, we set up a device which would attribute a composite formula to Appendix’s hometown of Portland Oregon, a sort of inverted piece of land art. The piece builds upon a project which is taking place simultaneously with the release of the show. [That project](http://www.newberrygeothermal.com/index.htm), which aims to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon to create a supply of sustainable geothermal energy, is broken down into the subjects _water_ and _consciousness_ and reassembled as follows:  As pressure mounts on world leaders to find realistic solutions and address the impacts of accelerating global environmental and economic challenges, we began developing a device which would be well acclimatized to a high degree of fluctuation in the weather and withstand increasing oscillations in the economy, political stability and collective-psyche of any given region. \[Rare Earth Sculptures\] CERIUM uses three essential components which bind themselves to the Cerium element in order to create an energy vortex by positioning a set of mediators within a wider one. It works like this; **mounting pressure to find solutions is first pumped through the** [**4000UF LIFESAVER**](http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html) **bottle** at the top of the sculpture where it undergoes a rigorous transformation. During this process the Lifesaver component itself is transformed from an advanced portable water purification device used by people hit by natural disasters to produce safe drinking water and leisure enthusiasts seeking a more authentic experience into a vessel which **filters escalating climate-anxiety** in order to obtain a calm and meditative state, using **everyday tap water** as a catalyst. Filtered tap water then ends up in the central part of the sculpture in a pool where it interacts with a sulphur specimen. This sparks off a **network of interconnectors** which draw in an amplitude of sequential [hyperobjects](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS8b87jnqnw). Notably, it turns the whole sculpture into a kind of **meta-filtration device** for evolving ecological strategies: particularly the potential threat of carbon dioxide emissions from volcanoes as a homeopathic-style remedy for human induced global warming. It does this by using the similar qualities of sulphur to cerium in order to draw in the reciprocal agency of its Ce⟿S⟿CO2 formula.  A kind of psychic transducer called a [**hyperdimensional oscillator**](http://www.lifetechnology.com/products/the-hyperdimensional-oscillator) purchased from [lifetechnology.com](http://lifetechnology.com) for roughly the same price as the Lifesaver bottle is suspended underneath. The object, which is essentially no more than a pill box with a piece of wire inside, claims to use Tesla technology to transport consciousness in order to access other dimensions of space time. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a1088c5a841f07ec1db17407054423eeb251d9b56f980c65b3214ffbc1c86df1.jpg) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8dc761f902b3f57ccf1c3979f34a2e58a17978f646dab2cc4f0052d2d0f95749.png) [ Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) Network Poster --------------------------------------------------- Originally exhibited at Appendix Project Space, Portland, CERIUM explores the intersections of ecology, technology, and consciousness through a sculptural device that reimagines survival tools as mediators of environmental and psychic states. Incorporating a Lifesaver Systems™ water bottle, sulphur, filtered tap water, a hyperdimensional oscillator, and structural elements of metal and timber, the work functions as a meta-filtration system. https://manifold.xyz ![Rare Earth Sculptures: CERIUM (2012) Network Poster](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f2475e0aca962fd4b2f2042b883416d8cd5539b60dd6d95059aaf0d4d660d835.jpg) ](https://manifold.xyz/@iainball/id/4156242160) * _\[RES\] Cerium has been designed to be used in various locations from actual_ [_volcanic regions_](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12301421) _to_ [_offices, institutions and reception areas_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_handler)_._ E N E R G Y⋮P A N G E A 2012 --- *Originally published on [ENERGY⋮PANGEA: Legacy Archive](https://paragraph.com/@energypangea/cerium-2012)*