Future Fossils / Design Trust / Installation / 2020
Natasza has been invited by Design Trust and Marisa You (Co-founder and Executive Director), to design and make a homemade hand-size prototype object as part of ‘Design Trust: Critically Homemade’ - an effort to alleviate the pandemic’s impact on Hong Kong’s design community by fostering design and research projects in the times of physical distancing.
Future Fossils seeks to capture the moment of discovery when pieces of concrete, old tiles or bricks emerge from among pebbles and shells as if they were artefacts of our built environment returning in a new form, amalgamating with nature.
The project highlights the global problem of construction waste, as well as building methods and materials that are neither reusable nor degradable. With some articles suspended in clear resin, viewers confront construction waste as it might be discovered by Antarctic expeditions years ahead, solidified in icebergs. Though a building is demolished as a sum, its parts live on, becoming Future Fossils.
Clear resin, here, acts as a material device, expressing waste congealed in time and space for all perpetuity and posterity. Should these artefacts cast in resin find their way to new uses—whether as a household tile, bookend or decorative element, for example—their intent will be complete, inanimately reminding us of the material effects we leave behind.
Future Fossils were exhibited at Soho House Hong Kong, The Shophouse and K11 Musea, and auctioned at the Design Trust annual auction.
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Press: Dezeen, Tatler Hong Kong
