The Boggy Gassy Clouds are a series of 31 pin-pricked drawings on Japanese paper (21.5cm x 26.5cm). Each drawing translates one day of a continuous data stream from an agri-sensor network monitoring a degraded peatland in the Cambrian Mountains, West Wales, from January 2026. Each drawing consists of 5,376 pin pricks, each representing a single digit of a seven-digit datapoint from the 8 sensor network, in total the 31 drawings contain 166, 656 digits/pin pricks.
The work visibilises raw environmental data as clouds: amorphous, delicate accumulations of holes. This is a critique of the digital “cloud,” a metaphor that suggests something light, transient, and ethereal, while the actual infrastructure of the digital cloud is heavy, static, and environmentally damaging.
All Photo’s by Ash Calvert, 2026