“Ferrous Garden” is a series of digitally fabricated works that combine 3D modelling, UV printing, laser cutting, and woodworking, reframing how we perceive waste. It began with a photograph I took in 2019 of a pile of metal garbage, which I rediscovered five years later while sorting through my film photos. Still drawn to it, I wanted to understand why.
To explore this, I recreated the pile as an observational 3D impressionist rendering and built custom frames to spend more time with the image. As the work evolved, the heap began to feel like a garden, and I became its farmer, cultivating growth in a place where none should exist.
The work explores themes related to the climate crisis, recycling infrastructure, and the shifting value of discarded materials. “Ferrous” refers to iron-containing metals, but here it also carries irony. This waste is preserved and beautiful, but it is quite literally useless to us under conventional norms.
