Styrofoam is gross. It takes 500 years to compose, it’s extremely difficult and expensive to recycle, and we produce it at excessively high rates. Polystyrene is expanded by up to 40 times its volume with air to create the product, which makes it inefficient to transport to facilities that break the materials down. It fills around 30% of our landfills.

We began experimenting with the material after a conversation with a neighbor of our workshop, aiming to find a place for it in the afterlife. Process, process, and process occured, eventually producing a method of intermittently removing the air from the material without sacrificing the material’s structure. The styrostack.

We now use this process to create sculpture, lights, and installations. Beautiful, delicate, ruins of consumption.