Designed by: Natasza Minasiewicz
Design Trust Affiliation: Design Trust Seed Grantee
Description:
‘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.
Image Credit: Natasza Minasiewicz
Website: Natasza Minasiewicz