box elder Pink and gray spalting, natural coloring. Red interior called "flame" — the tree’s biological response to rot, fungal infection, and insect damage. Salvaged/reclaimed wood.woodsalvaged
Formal Elements
voidHollow interior space, opening into the formwhat opens when you stop filling yourself, revelation, emergence
natural inclusionBurl eyes, spalting, insect damage, cracks—marks the material carries before interventionmemory, origin, collaboration with time
Embodies
damage-as-material 2026-03-10T16:56:05.979ZThe damage was the material all along. Not damage overcome, not damage redeemed, not beautiful-despite-broken. The rot is the color. The void is the form. The chainsaw scar is the first mark in a collaboration the chainsaw did not know it was starting. Damage is not precondition; damage is content.
