This is a detailed 3D scan of a rock. It's also an opportunity to print a rock for your own project while participating in the creation of an artwork.

I am an artist interested in tactility, processes of translation, and continuities between the physical and virtual realms, nature and culture. I took a rock from my garden, scanned it, and am now releasing it into the digital commons to see what it might become.

You might like to use it in some way for your project. By all means print it, translate it into something else, scale it up or down, incorporate it into something you're making. If you're a teacher you might even choose to use this in a class project (lesson plan below). It's no longer under my control. I'd like to think that the artwork I'm initiating will exist as a constellation of translations of my original rock dispersed across space and time and across physical and virtual realms. There might also be interesting discussion about this and about what art can be.
Please share your makes. I'd love to see them and the records you upload will become evidence of the artwork as it evolves.

You can view this artwork, Nebula, as part of the online exhibition Semantic Formatting