GEODENIM
Sculpture
Wooden box containing geodenim samples.
40cm x 40cm x 9am.
Textiles, resin, wood, glass.
2013
Imitating stratigraphic, petrographic and crystallographic visual imagery to materialize mineral conformations, denim scraps are cut, frayed, chopped, and then agglomerated with resins to achieve a hard material that can be carved and sanded into rock-like shapes. The process turns textiles' soft perceptual qualities into hard polymeric structures that resemble mineral formations.
The work speculates on a future where rocks formed from vestiges of jeans, an icon of contemporary material culture, provide significant information of our society to the "Archaeologists of the Future".
The technique to create this composite, known since the early twentieth century as micarta, was often used to manufacture the boards of the first automobiles, but went into disuse after the invention of industrial thermoforming processes. Some of the rocks elaborated for this artwork were carved like gemstones and applied to jewelry and accessories, proposing an alternative use to denim leftovers resulting from the cutting phase of the production of jeans and denim garments.
The Project was the winner of the Denim Project national contest Organized by Chevignon in Colombia in 2013. It was reviewed in ProjectoDiseño Magazine (Colombia) in that same year.