Exceptional Growth     A co-finished checkers table — locally sourced wooden stakes, dried botanicals preserved in resin, and living moss — letting time complete the last stage of the furniture


A site-specific piece of furniture built around "incompleteness" as a design strategy — letting time and nature serve as co-authors of the work

Developed at Stave Hill Ecological Park in collaboration with Huixian Chen (leading conceptual direction and material research) — the table is carved from locally sourced wooden stakes, with a checkerboard made of dried botanicals preserved in resin, and living moss embedded around its base. The furniture is intentionally left in an unfinished state: the moss continues to spread, the surface weathers with use — letting the object enter into a relationship with its surroundings over time, and making "incompleteness" the very way it participates in both ecological and social life
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