Woop – The Happy Accident by Hiroyuki from japan

This project marries leftover materials and unwanted characteristics of present technological processes to create products with a distinct aesthetic.
Branch wood of conifer trees is not viable for commercial production because of its small diameter and high moisture content. Water jet cutting process is usually used for hard materials like metals or stone. When cutting longer depths, the ends become wavy and imprecise.
My idea was to use this imprecise characteristic of the process on conifer branch wood because of its high moisture content. Unlike materials like metals and stone, the wood has an uneven density. Aberrations of water-jet cutting combined with this uneven wood density gives rise to an unintentional aesthetic emerging from the uncontrolled defects of the manufacturing process. This is a unique characteristic, found neither is mass production, nor in the handmade processes.
The objects anticipate sustainable material use and celebrate the raw aesthetics arising out of the defects of technological production.