A Fossil

A Fossil imagines an artifact preserved within the geological archive of the Anthropocene.

The work began with a sponge mattress marked by a human footprint. As an industrial material designed to imitate natural structures, the sponge reflects humanity's long history of learning from, reproducing, and reshaping nature through manufactured systems.

The original object was cast and transformed into ceramic, converting a soft and functional material into a brittle, stone like form. Through firing, oxidation, and material reactions, the surface developed textures resembling sediment, erosion, and mineral deposits.

Alongside the ceramic object, layered compositions of cement and sponge reference geological strata, proposing a speculative timeline in which traces of human activity become embedded within the Earth's archive.

Rather than functioning as a memorial to a specific civilization, the work considers how ordinary manufactured objects may outlast their original purpose and persist as future fossils.

Materials
Ceramic, cement, sponge, metal oxides, glaze

2025