A crystallised nugget

Take a pile of ash (the burnt remains of a pile of leaves perhaps), and again subject this material to intense heat. At a temperature of 1260 degrees, the minerals that survived the frst hot insult, now begin to transform and interact - melting and changing in unpredictable ways. A glassy, crystallised nugget emerges from the ashes.

In this emergent crystallisation from double fring an object of visual and physical complexity has emerged from a homogenous, grey pile of powder. There has been no manipulation or control imposed on this form, no human hand has shaped it. Throughout every step - from tree, to leaf, to ash to nugget - no code or syntax has sneaked in.

This array of bright colours has emerged directly from the mineral depths of the cherry tree - laid down in its leaves, held onto in the ash, re-incarnated as shiny blue, pink and rust nodules on a cherry-sized lump of glass. A reduced, abstracted, prismatically exploded but still indexical mark of the original tree.