SUR1

The concept of the name says it all. SUR1 is the first in a series of surreal objects. "SUR" is taken from "surreal," with "1" marking the origin of an idea. The vase doesn't try to imitate nature or tradition. It creates a condition, a moment where the ordinary laws of material logic seem to bend.

Process as poetry

The making of SUR1 is as much a part of the design as the finished object. A block of wood is sculpted into a stepped, cubist hill. A geometry that references architecture, urban silhouettes, and Brutalist mass. That carved form is then submerged in clear acrylic resin, cast into a perfect cylinder, and polished flush. Wood and resin share one outer skin, while inside they remain fundamentally different: porous and dense, warm and cold, ancient and synthetic.

A central cavity is drilled through the top, not as an afterthought but as the final gesture that activates the whole. Dried branches placed into it appear to rise from nowhere. There is no visible water, no visible support. The stems seem to hover, suspended somewhere between the wooden landscape below and the open air above.

The surreal effect

What makes SUR1 work is precisely what the eye cannot immediately resolve. Through the transparent resin, the wooden interior is fully visible, and yet the flowers float above it, untouched by it. The boundary between materials is honest and clear, but the result defies expectation. The object holds two realities at once: the natural and the artificial, the solid and the transparent, the sculptural and the functional.

This is not decoration. It is an object that makes you look twice and wonder about reality.