Karst is a landscape formed by water dissolving limestone. Caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, and voids emerge through erosion. Formations such as stalactites, stalagmites, and draperies grow through accumulation - drop by drop.
Karst landscapes hide complexity beneath apparent simplicity. The surface may appear sparse or quiet, while below lies a dense, interconnected system of otherworldly forms and creatures.
Karst is shaped by patience. The soft reshapes the hard. Time performs the work. Karst keeps reinventing itself. Beautiful formations build, collapse, and return as new structures.
Following this logic, The Karst is a working landscape - a framework for work that unfolds through depth. All Karst objects share one trait: there is more beneath the surface than meets the eye. Ideas, objects, spaces, and systems carry layers of complexity beneath apparent simplicity.
The Karst forms gradually, through discovery, erosion, and accumulation. Each object becomes part of a larger landscape - evolving, connected, and continuously reshaped over time.
Each Karst object is unique. As it emerges within the landscape, it is marked, documented, and assigned a three-digit K number.
Chairs
K207 I-V Invisible Labor
K505 I-IV Assimilation
K509 Conformity
K556 I-II Domestication
K562 I-III Utility
K827 Hierarchy
K576 Efficiency
K211 Service
K840 Misfit