Fragmental

Most composite materials are one-way. Once nettle cellulose is bound to bioplastic, the two are supposed to stay together forever or, more often, end up in landfill together because they cannot be separated.

Fragmental asks the opposite question. Can a hybrid object remember the materials it came from? Can it be designed so that, at end of life, each part returns to itself?

The sculpture combines nettle cellulose - from the same investigation as Krapiva Zhguchaya - bioplastic, and metal. Using TNO's Torwash technology, the object can be chemically undone after use: cellulose back to cellulose, bioplastic back to lactic acid, metals back to metals. Recycling becomes a reversal of authorship rather than a downgrade.

The form is a light. The question is whether anything we make has to stay in the shape we made it.

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