Rain of Payload Ashes
2017 – three taft silk handmade parachutes, waterjet cut aluminium block 10 x 10 x 10 cm
 

 
Rain of Payload Ashes is a series of speculative artefacts reflecting on the vertical orbiting gaze of cube satellites which are used by financial markets for generating alpha – information advantage – in stock trading. Via infrared technology cubesats capture the spectral signatures of reflected or emitted energy from or underneath the Earth surface which after algoritmic analysis can be identified as gold, melting snow, infected crops, oil reservoires from outer space. By remote sensing chemical are transformed into financial data. A swarm of light weight cube satellites descends back on Earth after false color satellite images have put financial derivatives in motion.