Rehearsal for a Building (Amorph/Alloy), a phygital object that exists simultaneously as sculpture and architecture. The physical object continues Barrow’s ongoing exploration of materiality and production techniques; combining a milled aluminium block with a colourful, amorphous, cast Jesmonite form. The tension between precision and fluidity becomes a central gesture in the work’s material language.

It’s digital counterpart emerges as a metamorphosing entity: the small, sculptural object re-contextualised as a monolithic building, set within a sparse desert landscape beneath distant mountains. In its final iteration, the work reveals the imagined building’s internal architecture - an intricate network of rooms, corridors, and stairwells.

In Rehearsal for a Building (Amorph/Alloy), Barrow abstracts the usual parameters of his design practice, allowing him, for the first time, to engage with the discipline of architecture in tandem with object design; exploring a new spatial language that shifts fluidly between disciplines, scales, and realities.

Minting Rehearsal for a Building (Amorph/Alloy) connects the collector to its digital form; a video NFT edition reflecting its physical counterpart, where the form shifts continually between pedestal-scale sculpture, monolithic building, and architectural wireframe. Video NFT consists of 17 second loopable MP4. 

Physical sculpture made from cast Jesmonite and milled aluminium.
To enquire about the edition of five physical sculptures, please contact the creator at craig@craigbarrow.com.
