"Implicating their artworks within a framework that resists the dizzying acceleration of technological connection, Dahl and Johnson unquestionably call on us to pause and honour the slow, methodical, and involved labour of both weaving and metalwork. Contextualized in contrast to the rapid explosion of artificial intelligence within expanding digital terrain(s), their collaborative sculptural interventions critique the systemic structures that rely upon the cyclical exploitation of natural resources. These emergent technologies, though arguably enriching, simultaneously complicate our understanding, alchemizing the very information we consume while structurally relying upon extractive geological architectures for their continuity. Stripping the earth of naturally found resources, these reserves, through ecological sensitivity toward climate change and through contemporary scientific inquiry, have proven finite. In tandem with unethical or overtly illegal mining procedures, repercussions reverberate far beyond the site of manufacture—inextricably linked often to the exploitation of bodies and labour, emboldened through colonial ideologies of domination and control."