Faceted glass sphere with an orange pâte de verre figure inside, on a tall black plaster pedestal

Future Archaeology

Future Archaeology #1

Year
2026
Materials
Blown glass, pâte de verre and plaster
Dimensions
300 × 130 × 130 mm

Future Archaeology treats glassmaking as archaeology in reverse, constructing the relics of the future rather than excavating the past. Mass-produced toys are translated into glass and enclosed within blown glass domes faceted through cold-working. Suspended in glass, these familiar objects become speculative artefacts, questioning what our civilisation will leave behind. The series asks what we choose to preserve, what survives us, and how everyday icons shift in meaning as relics.

Close view: the orange figure split and shifted by the facets of the sphere