Graduation project
Growth
Benjamin Motoc
# “When an industrial mould has a tiny flaw, it’s not used anymore – but that’s when it gets interesting.”
A birthmark here, wrinkles there; a family of stools resemble each other but are each slightly different, despite being born from the same mother mould. Through a series of evolving iterations, ‘Growth’ resists the uniformity of large-scale production. Abandoning the standard materials used for industrial moulds, Benjamin Motoc developed a production line that mirrors that of mass manufacturing, but generates a unique outcome with each casting. Materials with opposite qualities are combined: molten wax is poured into an ice mould, simultaneously taking its shape and deforming it. Offspring of the mould, these stools tell the story of their evolution and prompt us to rethink the manufacturing systems of today.