“Citando Dorr (1969), and Dos Santos (2010) describes the Iron Quadrangle as "an island" composed of metamorphosed folded layers, imbedded in a sea of ​​granite-gneiss rocks, deposited South of the Serra do Espinhaço, which merely after epeirogenic movement and erosion rises as forms of roots of large structures."

– Prof. James J. Griffith, excerpts from an unfinished book

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'Seed of Metals' deviate from the shifting 'Epeirogenic movement' (epeiros, land and genesis, birth), a natural phenomena of long wavelengths of upheavals or depressions of the earths crust.

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The installation consists of a strange loop machine, 16 mm film, high-fired bricks of erosion and drawings. A work created in response to Jonsson's research findings, traveling in one of the largest iron producing regions in the world. Visiting re-vegetation instituts, national parks, large-scale open-pit mines and industrial facilities in the Iron Quadrangle region, in south-east Brazil.

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