Manifold Steel – Wall Piece No. 1 is a wall piece that is designed to

function like a shelf. It serves to get viewers to admire it like a paint-

ing but also has a function of a shelf where one can place things on.

It is made from sheet metal steel. It carries Zavier’s reflection on the

impact of social media and technology.

Social Media tends to reduce and oversimplify things. Sheet metal

to the artist/maker carries that reductive quality. He wanted to trans-

form what is perceved as a negative quality into something beautiful.

Utilising both digital design tools and handcraft, the act of making the pieces

seeks to subvert it and turn it into an object that mirrors our hu-

man complexities and complex stories.

Merging digital fabrication techniques and hand craft, pieces of steel

were welding together with the aid of a digitally designed structure

produced with the support of CMD Lab, digital craft and hand craft

come together symbiotically in the making process.