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REFUSE explores what happens when the disposable is made permanent and captured in time. Resin becomes an act of defiance against the throwaway nature of modern life - freezing the temporary and making relics of things that were never meant to last, preserved like flies in amber.

The two stools use materials that were all destined for landfill: MDF offcuts found in a local skip and polystyrene shells used to ship digital printers made to protect more commercially valuable goods. Each of these materials exists only in service of something else - made to protect, hold, or support, but never to hold value in their own right.

Resin is unpredictable, synthetic, single-use, messy, and deeply unsustainable. Working with it demands instinctive, real-time decisions. Like the materials it encases, resin is usually used to protect or reinforce something considered more valuable. Here, that hierarchy collapses: the protector and the protected become one.

These pieces are tales of refusal, defiance, and afterlife, told through materials given only a fleeting right to exist before being rendered as useless and discarded.