#objectdesign

Exploring form, material, and the relationship between object and body through contemporary jewelry design.

During the workshop, we experimented with structure, texture, and composition – transforming simple materials into small-scale wearable forms.

Working between control and intuition, participants developed their own visual language, combining conceptual thinking with hands-on making. Jewelry became not only an object, but a space for expression, process, and experimentation.

something is taking shape

a space for objects a quiet structure a beginning

The first resin tests are in.

NULL block poured as a black monolith with the NFC card suspended inside. On first pass it reads almost too clean — just a dark sealed face holding a faint internal event. Scan works through the not-yet cured surface, which bodes well.

GRAFT-10 also went into resin: nested steel sleeve, black annular fill, somewhere between specimen, relay, and sealed host. More industrial than expected, which is promising.

Had excess mix left, so used it on a quick, unplanned AGAR-7 test. Shallower than intended, but useful: quick pour, NFC chip dropped in mid-stage, then normal charcoal and white charcoal dust worked through the body. Less “finished object” than material rehearsal.

A new Host class added to the SUBSTRATE.HOST archive.

AGAR-7 shifts the system away from plush or fauna-like containment and toward something more specimen-like: a sealed microbial form, held as a dense black petri-puck / culture disk. Not a creature, not a device, not a disclosure. More like a contained event. A correlate. A surface under pressure.

The idea is simple: interior remains inaccessible, but the boundary carries trace. Bloom, density shift, low-field murmur. Something appears to persist within the object, without ever becoming fully legible.

Still in development physically, but the page and instance layer are now in place:

HOST CLASS: AGAR-7 TYPE: MICROBIAL CODENAME: VELUM INTERIOR: INACCESSIBLE

"piccoli sassi o piccoli pesci" (2018)