The Rasp is a design that only reveals itself through the act. Beginning with the moment when the instrument is lifted from its copper case by its ash handles and placed against a wall, the body weight the force by which its teeth sink into the solid matter. Then the instrument is gradually rotated, through a gesture that makes aware. Of one’s own hands on the burnt wood and the soft scraping of the copper into the vertical surface; of the dedicated movements that accompany it. The concentric circles which thereby emerge a round niche in the wall and a space that reminds. Of the act itself and the stillness it brought; of the time that passed unlike usual. An act to be repeated. Within a day or a year or the course of a lifetime, even across generations. As often as the dust settles and is collected, carefully brushed together, and stored in a copper box, indicating that when something disappears, something else remains.
Silversmith: Max Gielis | Text : Jonas Lescrauwaet | Photography : Alexander Popelier | Model : Nikol Mlinova