Kan Spill?
An exploratory project aimed at experimenting with different condemned materials. The work process includes different techniques where the materials take place as a counter-reaction to the furniture industry’s use of resources.
The project questions norms and values of the industry regarding which materials are usable and unusable. During my process, I have placed value on the material’s own properties and let the shape be created according to that.
The fungus-infested wood used in the collection has undergone a variety of steps to become usable. The main part is heating the material, partly to stop the fungus’s survival and to neutralise the material so that it is suitable for use in an indoor environment.
The work has resulted in a collection containing a variety of objects. A table in cross-laminated discarded wood, two tables in fungus-infected wood, chains of waste from the collection and a light fixture made from biological waste in the form of human hair, homo capillus collected from hair salons. The project shows the potential for creative reuse of condemned and obsolete materials.
