The project originates in practical research on the deformation of cubes through the gesture of sitting. Using old cardboard boxes, the research focused on the relationship to the body; the movement of matter before, during, and after the encounter between the static and the living. These interactions and their results were compiled and archived in a rigorous, standardised way, allowing a kind of data of forms to emerge: shapes that could be superimposed, compared, and analysed.
Later, a 500 kg cube of clay became the receptacle for this same process of interaction and form generation. The act of sitting was standardised and repeated up to 1,500 times. Each sit left a trace, shaping the conditions for the next. As the cube continuously deformed, selected moments were casted into solid pieces of furniture; extracting and solidifying form from an otherwise ongoing process of change. This process reverses the logic of industrial production. Instead of producing countless identical objects from a single fixed form, one object slowly generates countless different forms.
Changing forms were treated like subjects in a lab, rigorously documented and preserved. 3D scans, drawings, photography, and ultimately sculpture are among the mediums through which these unstable objects were solidified into something lasting.
Pictures: Sweet Scope Studio
