Molten Memories by Sarah Roseman.

We grow up through layers of material in domestic space. With each discarded layer of material, comes another phase in our life as well. What happens to these materials once we’ve moved on? For Sarah Roseman, a Canadian born designer based in The Netherlands, this is the foundation of her latest work Molten Memories. Working on the boundary of textile and object, she creates material archives which lead to the creation of unique objects and industry alternatives.

Molten Memories started as an archive of found materials from our collective past, taking pieces from house renovation and demolition sites from around the city of Eindhoven, Netherlands. The carpet invites us to take the perspective of a child once again, through its exaggerated scale. Boulders become mountains, grass grows between garden stones and the world seems to come alive. Just like memories, the sections melt together and the lines between fact and fiction start to blur.

“Discarded materials from every part of the house are re-imagined to form a living landscape that reminds us of our most playful days,” Roseman explains. “Remember how the couch cushions were like mountains to climb? How creaking floorboards seemed to come alive? What the relief of cool tiles felt like or the tickling grass between garden stones?”

The piece is made entirely from reclaimed materials—discarded carpets were spun into new yarn and tufted to form textures reminiscent of toys on the floor. The cheap qualities of laminate wood were transformed into organic islands and edges from broken tiles were smoothened to form soft river stones. A variety of techniques were used to craft the final piece including hand tufting, rubber casting and wood sculpting.

Molten Memories explores sustainability through radical material choices and unique processes while capturing that original sense of wonder we all have nostalgia for.

Related: Textile Ruins by Sergio Roger.

[Images courtesy of Sarah Roseman. Photography by Barry Llewellyn.]