INDUSTRIAL DRIFTWOOD

Manufacturing practices serve to transform and preserve natural materials - enhancing their properties to bestow upon them additional strength or durability. As early as 1797, we have been gluing thin layers of trees together, imparting a consistency and regularity that wouldn’t have been achieved by nature. Today, Plywood provides a backdrop to our lives - from playing a key role in the poured concrete structures we live in, to serving as the raw materials for our furniture and flooring.

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All of the below works have been created from the offcuts of that industry. A surplus material - although unnaturally durable - usually discarded as commercial waste.

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