Every digital technology begins beneath the surface. Clouds don't rain here traces the material origins of the digital, following the geological resources, industrial processes and infrastructures that make digital technologies possible.
The photographic works document landscapes shaped by extraction, including Kiruna and Malmberget in northern Sweden, where expanding mining operations continue to transform not only the surrounding terrain but entire urban structures. As the mines grow, neighbourhoods, roads and public buildings are relocated, revealing how the demand for raw materials reshapes both landscapes and the places built upon them.
Rather than approaching the digital as immaterial, the work considers it as inseparable from geology, energy and extraction. Nature and technology emerge not as opposing categories, but as interconnected material processes, positioning landscape as the physical origin of the digital.
