Borrowed Forms

Borrowed Forms takes on loan shapes of the natural world and translates them into domestic objects. Rocks, charred wood, and forest debris from the Pacific Northwest are selected for form and texture, and their impressions are captured in poured jewelers wax. Once the wax has cooled, it is removed and trimmed, creating a vessel foraged from these found objects. The wax leaves no trace behind as it peels away—an impactless intervention, as if nothing ever occured. The final stage is to lost wax cast the vessels in silicon bronze—each resulting piece is unique, a direct portal to the form it is drawn from.