Materials Flow

“We are all star dust,” said astrophysicist Carl Sagan.

A series of fruit and trowel shaped objects, suspended like hams and sausages in a butcher shop, were created from accumulated studio dust as a response to Yuval’s manifesto, which calls for exploring acts of design without material — a-materiality.

The work resonates with the biblical verse “for dust you are, and to dust you shall return”, offering a dual interpretation of the human–material relationship: in the process of creating a specific, unique object, an opposite process occurs simultaneously — the raw, inherent identity of the material from which the object is formed is erased or broken down into dust.

Here, dust becomes a raw material in its own right, enabling the creation of objects devoid of material history, inviting new interpretations of the identity and essence of matter.