Mining the Sky is a visual inquiry into the future of mining in outer space, tracing the invisible lines between extractive industries from Earth and what we project onto the celestial ecosystem. Working across collages, etching, and archival imagery, the work maps the political, social, and economic stakes of an emerging industry that threatens to transpose imperial terrestrial systems of labour, scarcity, and inequality onto astronomical space.

Using four states of extraterrestrial bodies (asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites) as a conceptual framework, the project considers how matter shifts in status as it moves from distant orbit to something held in the hand. Dependent on scales of proximity and value, these transformations mirror the very systems through which we have historically organised exploitation, ownership, and dispossession on Earth.

Through speculative research, the work asks: where does terrestrial space begin and end? How does the notion of scarcity translate into astronomical space? And what does the future hold for an industry built on the pursuit of finitude?