FERRUM

FERRUM

The memory of fire

Everything begins as matter.

Before the edge, there is only weight.

A rough steel billet held in narrow cold light.

01 / Heat

The furnace

Fire gives matter possibility.

A dark surface gathers light.
What was rigid begins to yield.

The same steel glows above a bed of dark embers.

02 / Force

The strike

Force leaves a trace.

A moment of contact.
A shape that will remember it.

A massive hammer over the heated metal, with a few directional sparks.

03 / Transformation

The temperature
between

Heat gives way to silence.

The glow fades.
The change remains.

A long steel form enters a dark reflective water surface.

04 / Light

Reveal
the edge

Light reveals what fire remembers.

A ridge. A scar. A fine reflection.
Move your pointer to follow the light.Scroll slowly to follow the light.A still view of the ridge and surface marks.

A close view of a polished bevel, central ridge, and fine metal scratches.

05 / Memory

The relic

What remains remembers.

All that heat. This quiet object.

The completed cold steel sculpture rests in a quiet architectural space.
FERRUM

A matter
of becoming.

  1. 00Before formMatter
  2. 01The furnaceHeat
  3. 02The strikeForce
  4. 03The temperature betweenChange
  5. 04Reveal the edgeLight
  6. 05The relicMemory

One piece of steel. Six states of becoming.
FERRUM

Steel remembers
the fire.

FERRUM is an interactive study of matter becoming form. Follow one piece of steel through heat, force, water and light.

Its memory is written in its surface: a ridge, a scar, a change in reflection. This is an original digital sculpture and a poetic interpretation of craft.

Scroll at your own pace. Move backward to revisit a moment. Stay as long as you like.

Your experience

Sound starts only when you switch it on. Still images preserve every chapter.

A craft reference — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

FERRUM / The memory of fire