Future Fossils is a collection of new works by Simon Johns, using mimicry in materials, loosely referencing the sedimentary striations in million years old stone. This collection explores positives and negatives of both extrusions and voids, in both gypsum cement and slip-cast stoneware. The traces of natural looking elements are preserved into mold-like volumes, structured into aluminum grids and more free-form geometries. The pieces are really furniture, but also seem like documents, celebrating the traces of something lost.

Future Fossils Magma Lamp is a floor lamp made of stoneware, polished aluminum and thick blown glass. Molds are made of a hand carved texture, clay is pressed into 2 parts of these forms, and thick glass is blown into the last section. The result is a continuous texture that travels through two materials both from the mineral world, one of them looking as though it could still be molten. There is an edition of 5 + 1 AP for these lamps, 3 right handed and 3 left handed, all unique. 

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A low console, with a continuous cavernous void that spreads through a rigid structure. The hand polished aluminum reflects light from the room onto the interior of the piece, highlighting the collections signature texture, while also creating illusions of transparency through reflection.

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The most expressive of the Future Fossils collection, the low table features slip-cast volumes of stoneware, each loosely mimicking 
the textures of sedimentary stone. Of varying shapes and sizes, they are organized around a polished aluminum volume that reflects the light from the room. An aluminum top and bottom contain these forms within a perimeter dictated by the ceramic shapes.

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Future Fossils End Table is the result of hand  pressing slabs of clay into a plaster mold, using the collections texture. The cracks and defects of this type of assembly remain visible on the outside and randomly interfere with the main texture. These cannot be seen until the entire piece is ready to leave the mold, and embracing these aspects emphasizes the hand-made aspect and simple quality of this age-old material. Cream stoneware or terracotta coloured stoneware with aluminum tops. 

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A collection of wall mounted ceramic pieces, either illuminated or reflective. The irregular and highly textured objects evoke bleached coral, lava scars or even barnacles. Either emitting a warm and gradient glow as a sconce, or reflecting as a mirror, the works are both sculptural and ghostlike. Portals can be combined into sets that resemble groupings of family portraits, alone as curiosities, or used as you would any kind of sconce or decorative mirror.

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A slender tower-like sculptural bookcase, made from a rigid hand polished aluminum structure. Through the grid-like structure, a cast form of the collection’s signature texture flows continuously through the layers. The polishing of the aluminum creates illusions of transparency on the outside, and interiors that glow, reflecting the light from the room.

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A heavy statement chair, with volumes reminiscent of brutalist architecture and deep textured voids. Depth of details are emphasized when the light reaches the voids, while the simple exterior planes become monochromatic geometric shapes.

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A slender tower-like sculptural bookcase, with a continuous cavernous void that rises through a rigid structure. The hand polished aluminum reflects light from the room onto the interior of the piece, highlighting the collections signature texture, while also creating illusions of transparency through reflection.

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