JC Jacinto

Rest can have multiple meanings, it can be interpreted as a motionless state, a pause between actions, a means to recover, an end, or the remaining part of something.

For this piece, each definition is blurred and highlighted at the same time by showing the stages it undertook to reach the current, preserved and unyielding state. 

Pieces of scrap wood are fitted and mounted on a panel, from waste to a tiled image, the importance of the object is further improved by applying a traditional Japanese wood preservation technique called Shou sugi ban (Yakisugi), the charring of the wood’s surface as a way to prevent moisture, wood-boring insects and even flame. This process of damaging through carbonisation not only preserves the wood, but also enhances its visual qualities and durability. The next step was suspending the object in that transcendent state by encapsulating it in clear laminating epoxy, rendering it impenetrable, ensuring the permanence of its existence.

The series of processes and the various transformations the material incurred represents change and how every experience, even the  damaging can be shifted to benefit oneself. Rest can be an end of a chapter, rest can be the present where you need to pause and  realign yourself, and the rest can be everything moving forward, the future in which the potential of being better always exists.