PINE RESIN

PineResin is a material research project and quest for discovering new material relationships deriving from the byproducts of timber industry. The ceramic-like composite material pays tribute to the pine tree, the most industrialized tree in the world, and what is left from it after it has been cut down.

Pine resin, pine bark, sawdust, and charcoal are fused together to shape new structures, functions and aesthetics. With help of natural pigments and varying proportions, the material can differ in color and texture. Being a thermoplastic, PineResin can be re-melted and shaped back into the same, or any new shape each and every time and thus it lives a continuous lifecycle. This specific quality of a thermoplastic raises a fundemental question - do we own a function or a material? If the function breaks, does the material have die as well? In case of PineResin, the material in its core is designed to break and remake itself throughout numerous functional applications.

On a broader level the Sarmīte looks at the resources of forests. She aims to create alternative production paradigms for the tree cutting industry with less emphasis on timber production. Just like the forest itself, PineResin is an ecosystem of life forms, interdependence and symbiosis. the neighbor forest.

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Created by Studio Sarmīte