garden creatures

Misbehaving Objects are dysfunctional utensils that exist somewhere between bodily prosthetics, ceremonial tools and living organisms. Cast in silicone and hybridised with found materials, these domestic artefacts refuse efficient use. Forks soften into tentacles, spoons fold into fleshy membranes, knives lose their cutting edge. Neither tool nor sculpture, they challenge the assumption that objects exist solely to serve human needs.

These works propose alternative rituals of eating in which nourishment extends beyond consumption to encompass intimacy, care, desire and collective memory. Rather than facilitating the act of dining, they choreograph encounters between bodies, materials and affects, unsettling familiar relationships between the human and the non-human.

As Misbehaving Objects, they resist their intended function and acquire a form of agency. They blur distinctions between utensil and creature, ornament and prosthesis, commodity and companion. In refusing utility, they expose the social and political systems embedded within design and domesticity, inviting viewers to imagine more reciprocal, less anthropocentric relationships with the material world.