Martha’s Quarterly,  Issue 37, Fall 2025, Leave all creative energies uninhibited, reflects on how the ordinary objects and amenities that we use every day are tied to the material world– hard, physical, raw materials that come from Earth. These materials are also retrieved and transformed by humans, and those processes have infrastructures that have shaped communities around the world.

The gray accordion structure of this zine features some of the hand-drawn diagrams of mineral deposits in the Grasberg from Dozy’s expedition report. The last page features a simple copper tape-wire circuit that demonstrates how copper conducts electricity.  This simple circuit works when the battery is connected because the copper tape on one side connects with the positive side of the battery.  The other piece of tape connects to the negative side.  When the loop is complete, the current glows through the LED light, giving it enough energy to glow.

– From the publisher