Engineers and designers using the art of metallurgy have traditionally focused on the development of some specific properties of metals, like their mechanical strength or their high electrical and thermal conductivity. But metals have other interesting peculiarities, they are very reactive to the environment, some can easily oxidate, rust or stress. The field of fine arts has made use of these properties for a long time when producing pigments out of metal oxides or etching metal in printmaking. For other industries, these qualities challenge the current parameters of efficiency, standardization or uniformity.
Inspired by natural forces like crystallization and sedimentation, chemical reactions found in construction materials like concrete and cement, or sintern in ceramics, a new metallic material is yet to be developed. A mixture of metal particles, minerals and water react under specific ambient conditions to conform it. This is an attempt to make a material from scratch, an artistic medium, based upon non utilitarian production parameters and displaced techniques that speculate on the potentiality to find new features and attributes of matter by slightly changing the way it´s arranged and transformed.
