Oxidised Iron

Like the Black Iron Black Box Edition, these ghosts are made using a very old sand casting process; molten iron is poured into sand moulds giving a unique hand cast ghost.

Instead of protecting the iron with blackened oil, we kept this batch as unfinished iron. The raw ghosts were then wrapped in old fabric remnants including lace and shrouded in black cotton. These were then dipped into salt water to allow oxidation to occur. The iron reacts with water and oxygen to form hydrated iron oxide, commonly knows as rust. The patterns formed by the rust are random and each ghost bares it’s own markings, some have faint imprints of the lace or fabric texture rusted into their surface. Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass will eventually convert entirely to rust and disintegrate, disappearing into flakes of and dust of compound element. The natural decay somewhat mirrors our own. We have coated the ghosts with a lacquer to seal it and has a cork base etched with the release date to protect surfaces from errant rust marks.

These are like objects dug from the earth; there’s a cold weight in these ghosts, to hold one is like holding an object from another era.

Batch of 28 - 22 online and 6 buried on 5/4/20 to be exhumed and sold after one year of interment.

Release date : 3/4/20