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. Each drawing consists of 5,376 pin pricks, each representing a single digit of a seven-digit datapoint from 8 sensors.
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.
In the Assembly Room…Spring 2026
All Photo’s by Ash Calvert, 2026