My topic of interest is Mineral Politics and its historical and contemporary agency. The project focuses on following red oxide pigment through different geographical coordinates from Buckingham to Abu Musa to Forrest of Dean to Mars, revealing the conditions that arise through the pigment. In 1908, the monarchy decided to make the pavements red to give the effect of a red carpet around the Palace. The red oxide used for the pavements comes from the contested island of Abu Musa between the UAE and Iran. Their aesthetic choice of red comes from a 70-year-long history of extraction on the island. This period of extraction produced the contestation of the island yet red oxide's role in historical geo-politics disappears. In 2021, the UAE space agency used red oxide in their 'martian ink' passport stamps to promote their probe going to mars, red oxide yet again is entangled with national land claim that extends to extra-terrestrial territories. The project continues as a mapping project with the focus on mars mission and to hold the tension between the scale of the mineral to the scale of planets. The project hopes to understand how a martian mission that's perceived as an ambition elsewhere have material effects in our contemporary like Abu Musa. The skills I'd like to develop further are mapping through formal ways like ArcGIS and learn expansive forms of mapping that enable a total image of the martian mission which I think could be developed through guided walks and performances. Therefore I see the work situated within the "MAPP" (Methods Affect and Practical Pedagogy) praxis that would allow me to adopt feminist geography thinking within the work.