Jennie Leino

Minerals are separated and melted out of the ground at a tremendous rate. They are transformed to be everywhere in our everyday lives- in the building you live in, the food you eat, the supplements and medicine you take, the subway you ride on, and the smartphone in your hand. For every mineral-based artifact you see, there’s an even bigger hole in the ground.

I have extracted the minerals from our surroundings: Manure, dyes, stainless steel, makeup, insulation, deodorant, pesticides, porcelain, preservatives, salt, anti-caking agents, concrete, silicon, and more. I want to build a relationship, get to know static products and materials, and start mixing, burning, dissolving, and merging. Let them react and become stone again. What just flowed and moved around and burned now stands still for a while in the form of a man-made stone collection.