I really love the wood grain of this PVC wood. It feels very silly to me, and yet there is something strangely comforting about being allowed to reference it as wood through its surface. I’ve been doing a lot of research on plastics and thinking about how plastics can’t biodegrade but instead can only photodegrade. There is a Donna Haraway quote about the cyborg not dreaming of returning to dust and this made me think of the micro plastics that will continuously float about, getting smaller and smaller but never changing molecular form. I wanted to physicalize the breakdown of this PVC in relation to its wood surface. The only way for it to become dust is for me to intervene and make it so. This also feels like the first step in a longer engagement with the materials.
