Working with a custom concrete recipe Pourfard and Upton created during the process, they then utilized the natural materials around them to modify thetextures of their castings - lining the dirt with palm leaves, bamboo, and wood. The result is a series of sculptural pieces made in collaboration with the two designers and with nature.
Pourfard and Upton attribute their interest in earthcasting to the surprises and surrender the process holds: “The earth influences the final form every single time in unexpected ways, creating textures and patterns all their own and that are impossible to fully control,”.
