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The Surface Collection distills our enduring exploration into the fluid dynamics between the digital images and physical objects, the tangible and the conceptual. The collection engages in a sophisticated discourse on the liminal space between material solidity and digital surface, and the mutable relationship between an artifact and its context.  


Baroque polymath Leibniz famously wrote: "la nature ne fait jamais des sauts," translating to "nature has no jumps." In the realm of Baroque calculus, both time and space are conceived as continuous, devoid of abrupt ruptures. This form of calculus, existing in the abstract, operated with a theoretical material that was smooth, isotropic, and consistent—an idealization that did not exist in reality at the time. Stainless steel, invented in the 19th century, approximates this abstract material, embodying the qualities of smoothness and uniformity. Digital simulation today utilizes infinitely pliable, homogeneous abstract surfaces, reminiscent of the theoretical surfaces of Baroque calculus, thus continuing the legacy of this abstract, continuous material in a modern context.





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In the realm of digital simulation, all things are made of points, lines and infinitely thin surfaces. Digital objects are, in practice, surfaces, folded, bent and stretched to embody/manifest/envelope designed forms. Surface collection is a design experiment to bring digital objects into a physical space. Exploring the process of translation of ideal digital objects, with virtually no tolerances, into a fuzzy, imperfect physical space, the melding of these two creates hybrid objects that look and feel at once both physical and digital, and straddle the boundary between the two worlds. 



Digital objects of surface collection, actualized in mirror-polished stainless steel, dissolve the lines between the object and its surroundings. Consisting of sculptures that double as functional articles—coffee table, chair and a side table—the collection challenges perceptions of materiality, capturing the dynamism of undulating surfaces in a moment of stasis, inviting the viewer to consider the fluid nature of our entangled world. 
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Projects: ❶ surface ❷ bug in my software ❸ prototyping