What do we need when we seem to have everything? This project targets to deepen my understanding of the material culture and to investigate our modern necessities. Through my ongoing project (“Objects of Necessity”) I investigate and create objects for a new world and a new time. My work focuses on the relationship between human and material, on the role of talismans, and on how objects have new functions as mediators.  By mediator I mean how objects could convey and remind want I need to be remembered and work almost like a talisman or like mental compass.

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Over the past five years, through various experiments, I have developed a method for capillary wood dyeing by utilizing the wood's own physiological properties. This dyeing method emphasizes the material's vitality: the wood's ability to transport water and nutrients, as well as its emotional capacity. Together, the color and the wood make visible the time embedded within them. The role of the material has been turned upside down – whereas wood has traditionally been seen primarily as a raw material, an object of work, and a source of utility, the capillary process transforms it into an active participant. The wood dyes itself; I am merely the facilitator.

As a result of my experiments, I have created colorful, messy, loud, and space-claiming objects that are unexpected, non-reproducible, and visually expressive. The phenomenon produced by the material is impactful, creating a unique relationship between the object and the user.