UC87

The most discarded part of an already discarded material. The heads of ancient beams — the ends embedded in stone walls for decades, blackened and softened by moisture and time through a process of natural decarbonisation — are what most people would consider the waste of the waste.

We saw a glimmer of beauty in that peculiar mark left by time. Once enough had accumulated, we brought them to a uniform cross-section, aligned them in a grid, and filled the gaps with resin. Fibreglass reinforcement beneath the surface allowed us to present them vertically — an unconventional orientation that transforms what was structural into something sculptural. Shaped into an organic, suggestive geometry and finished in black oil.

The remains of the remains, elevated.