spoil
vessels made with the earth beneath your building.
the offerevery tower starts with a hole. thousands of tonnes of earth are cut, carted, and forgotten before the first slab is poured. builders call it spoil. we keep a little of it, blend it into stoneware, and return it to the building as something its people hold every morning.
three ways to give a building its earth back
01
settlement editions
a mug for every settlement, made with clay cut from the buyer's own address and stamped with the site coordinates. the only settlement gift anyone has ever kept.
from $120 a piece, editioned to your tower, never repeated
02
public art
a sculptural commission for the lobby, made of the ground the building stands on. satisfies a percent-for-art contribution with a work that could not exist at any other address.
commissions from $60,000
03
the boardroom set
tea and coffee for the rooms where the project was decided, and ceremony pieces for the hands that turned the first sod. the photograph that ends up in the annual report.
commissioned services from $7,500
one afternoon on your site, then we disappear for a year
i.
collect
one afternoon at bulk excavation. a ute load of clay from the clean deep cut, tagged and driven back to the studio. your program never notices us.
ii.
test and blend
site clay is dried, sieved, and blended into a proven stoneware body, ten to forty percent by weight. made with the site, not of it. we will not pretend otherwise.
iii.
make
thrown and glazed by hand over the years your tower takes to rise. slow ceramics on a construction timeline is not a compromise, it is a perfect fit.
iv.
stamp and deliver
every piece carries the site coordinates and its blend percentage, delivered to your settlement schedule with the provenance in writing.
the idea has form. hs2 commissioned a hundred-plate dinner service from excavated london clay. the thames tideway gave its spoil to sculptors. no one in australia has made it a standing offer. we are.
the first tower gets it at cost
we want one pilot and one case study. if you have a hole in the ground in south east queensland, or one on the way, the clay is already yours. the rest is a conversation.
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