Stone Tool: SOLID AIR is a resin-cast sculpture based on an Acheulean-era hand axe, one of the earliest known examples of human tool-making. Scaled up, 3D-scanned, and embedded with cybernetic fragments and metallic components, the work is presented as an artefact from the speculative world of Ethereality, a digital pastoral where time collapses, and history is both remembered and reimagined.
This object collapses deep past and imagined future. It references the human instinct to make and modify, but also questions how tools evolve: not only as instruments, but as carriers of symbolism, memory, and desire. The transparency of the resin, combined with the embedded circuitry, produces an ambiguous materiality: fossil and prototype, relic and device.
By recontextualising the stone tool within this speculative terrain, SOLID AIR positions itself as a monument to human perception and technological continuity. It feels geological, ritualistic, and yet hyper-contemporary, an object that could belong in a museum, a ruin, or a science fiction archive.
It is a sculptural anchor in a world defined by absence, longing, and speculative time.