A practice rooted in the silent offerings of nature — studied, questioned, transformed. Craft is not preserved, but reimagined. Through contradiction, through tension, through methods that precede language. In the studio of Thomas Van Noten, exploration unfolds as a quiet resistance to excess. We acknowledge overconsumption and the commodification it has brought. What lasts becomes a starting point. What endures — not only in form, but in feeling. Objects gain weight not through mass, but through meaning.