Oxfam Restaurant – Lowlands
A temporary outdoor restaurant where mooring pole residue becomes dining furniture. Tables are constructed from massive wooden posts that spent forty years underwater before being manually stripped for reuse. The discarded outer layers, normally valueless, reveal accumulated barnacle colonies alongside axe marks from original pole fabrication, creating heavily textured surfaces that document both marine ecology and industrial woodworking. Car tires are horizontally linked to form benches. The installation demonstrates convergence between nautical infrastructure debris and automotive scrap in functional festival configuration. Minimal intervention preserves the weathered character – where accreted organisms and tool traces remain visible as essential material narrative rather than flaws requiring correction.
