"Fragments" is an ongoing edition of nine sculptural works. Each work is a single grain of sand in the same material, enlarged 130 to 230 times. The scale allows close examination of individual grains; each sculpture preserves the topographies and temporal traces in their surfaces. The edition may expand as new grains are added. The project treats sand as a material that carries geological memory and place-specific associations. Sand is abundant globally but under pressure from construction and digital-industry demand. Lee works with detritus as embodied memory; Reiner contributes parametric work based on natural phenomena described by mathematical principles. The collaboration uses mathematical precision to expose structure and history in single grains.
Research:
Each sculpture starts with one grain scanned by Zeiss X-ray microscopy (nano-CT). The process captures surface topology and internal density at micron resolution. Data moves from physical grain to DICOM image stack, then to 3D geometry via surface reconstruction. ProtoCtrl handles mesh processing and parametric geometry for 3D printing. The workflow engages the Sorites paradox by fixing a single grain as the unit of reconstruction while the material is defined by multiplicity. Output is hyper-realistic reconstruction at intimate scale (130-230x).
Photography: Christopher Häring
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