Origin – Form confronts the industrial techniques within the history of object production. By visually inserting iron ore directly into the eating surface of cast ceramic spoons, the project materialises the “genesis” of an everyday utensil. Deep mineral origin, iron ore, and the finished commodity, are in sync.

Polished stainless steel is the fantasy of an object with no origin, no burden: it relies on the fantasy of neutrality. The stainless steel spoon is a perfectly hygienic product at the table, unaffected by time. The work puts geological time and labor back into focus. Industrial design scripts repetition as the endless production of sameness. The serial casting with bronze glaze oxidation creates within each identical spoon an indicator of weathering, each spoon becomes oxidation inscribed by time and external factors.

An object as common as the spoon has within it resource, energy, and extraction: mineral environment and industrial production assemble. The project connects what is often omitted: material extraction and the complexity of transformation. Temporality, decay, friction: genesis, commodity, origin, abstraction. Everyday objets carry trajectories that made them possible.