Liquid Relic
Liquid Relic is an ongoing material research into glass made from wastewater residues. It explores how what we flush away can reappear as a tangible record of hidden systems and collective behaviour.
Water moves endlessly through time, landscapes and bodies. What we flush away does not disappear. It is transformed and comes back in different forms in different places.
Using by-products from wastewater treatment, such as incinerated sludge ash, I develop glass as a material that holds traces of what we prefer not to see. Heavy metals, minerals, and other remnants of our daily lives become embedded in the glass.
The project explores how these residues can be reworked into both material and surface: as part of the glass body, or as pigments for printing and staining. From fluid to solid, from invisible to tangible.
Rather than presenting waste as something to eliminate, Liquid Relic approaches it as a witness. A material record of collective behaviour.
Through this ongoing research, I investigate how materials can make hidden cycles perceptible, and how transformation can open space for new relationships with what we discard.
Using by-products from wastewater treatment, such as incinerated sludge ash, I develop glass as a material that holds traces of what we prefer not to see. Heavy metals, minerals, and other remnants of our daily lives become embedded in the glass.
The project explores how these residues can be reworked into both material and surface: as part of the glass body, or as pigments for printing and staining. From fluid to solid, from invisible to tangible.
Rather than presenting waste as something to eliminate, Liquid Relic approaches it as a witness. A material record of collective behaviour.
Through this ongoing research, I investigate how materials can make hidden cycles perceptible, and how transformation can open space for new relationships with what we discard.