Chum Carvings

Chum- a compressed block of clay. How is it that materials with such beauty, use and potential can be so easily abandoned? We process and refine the world around us only to be arrested by time. Chum Carvings re-investigate those forgotten materials. They look at their form and state, and strive to re-invent their appearance not to what they could have been, but what they should be now. Objects of weight, grounded by what they are, timeless, present, and valued