KARST Stool
Layers of stone shaped by vanished currents — a cross-section of the Earth that captures the silent topography of an ancestral underwater world, where every cavity recalls a vanished flow.
270 x 90 x H 75 cm — Bespoke Sizes, Shapes and Finishes
2014 — Mint Gallery, London
Karst Stones with Moss, Transparent Extraclear Polished Resin, Felt on the bottom.
Karst is a landscape shaped not by force, but by the patient dissolution of stone. Over thousands of years, acidic waters flowed through the cracks of soluble rocks — like those of the Dolomites — carving an underground world of cavities, sinkholes, and hidden rivers.
In this ever-changing terrain, alcarol retrieved fragments of local karst stone, their surfaces still bearing traces of mosses, lichens, and the erosion of ancient flows. These time-marked skins are now suspended in a transparent resin, like water stilled in its motion — freezing the instant, preserving the trace.
The Karst Stone Side Table is a section of Earth’s crust, lifted from subterranean silence. It reveals a miniature, ancestral seascape — shaped by fluid movement, now motionless. A fragment of land where the echo of water lingers in the cavities it once carved, and where impermanence becomes enduring form.
This is not just a table — it is a suspended topography, a quiet memory of submerged time.
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