Observing the geography of the Peruvian Andes and the islands of the Indo-Pacific ocean, we witness the expression of subterranean flows. Earth’s internal forces shape landscapes, fracture crusts and create new land. Lava moves beneath us like water: dense fluid energy sculpting terrain over millennia. Lava Cores capture this deep-time movement, suspending a moment of matter’s transformation, like a trace of the Earth in flux.

Lava Cores marks the first lighting project for Mapa de Suelos, featuring a custom designed back-lit system.