Excerpt from my virtual quarry

Casted stoneware, smoke-firing
Ø27 x H50cm

From the 3D scan of a rock taken from the real world begins a process of translation, where data becomes form, and form becomes artifact.
The raw material undergoes a triple displacement: first virtualized, then re-materialized through stoneware molding, and finally textured by smoke-firing.
This passage from one state to another produces a perceptual ambiguity: the form appears familiar, almost geological, yet at the same time archetypal, artificially recomposed.
Smoke-firing, both a natural ornament and an added stratum, enhances the speculative nature of the object: not simply a rock, but the idea of a rock—its trace, its model, its fiction.

By shifting extraction into the virtual realm, I proposes a sculptural gesture that spares the physical landscape. The work engages with a digital ecology of forms, where matter is simulated, reimagined, and made tangible—without being consumed.

Project in collaboration with terrain vague