tree to tableware

By engaging directly with each stage of production, the project foregrounds process as a design tool, allowing tool marks, grain, and variation to remain present as evidence of making rather than imperfections to be erased.

Tree to Tableware began during my gap year, before I had decided to pursue product design, driven by a natural pull toward making and material processes. Using a blank piece of timber as a starting point, the material was allowed to inform form, proportion, and finish through grain, defects, and tool interaction. Years later, the project continues as an ongoing practice, with new objects still being made as a way of refining skills, deepening material understanding, and maintaining a direct relationship between process and outcome.