2022
(found clay, biomaterials, wax, cloth)
graduation project
food waste dinner served on a food waste tableware for food waste guests.
responding to the growing distance between human and the material world, this project investigates how the degrees of abstraction from our resources play a role in the way we consume and understand the here and now. It focuses on clay and uses food waste to speculate about the material’s future. limestone is weathered at an average of 1/20 cm every 100 years. meanwhile, each day globally, 3.5 thousand tonnes of food is being thrown away.
each piece of the tableware is made using the same base recipe with varying amounts of the potato peels, egg shells and onion skins filler. the recipe mimics the chemical and structural composition of clay and obtains its components from organic matter that’s being commonly perceived as ‘waste’.
the installation invites both human and non-human to a dinner table, raising it from being considered as something that’s below us onto a seat next to us.