THE UPGRADE YOU DIDN’T NEED. 🧱 Heavy Use is a sculptural object that takes the form of a classic smartphone, faithfully rendered in industrial concrete and cast to scale, transforming a symbol of modern convenience into a dense, inert monument. Part visual pun, part conceptual critique, the piece offers a literal weight to match the psychological one our devices often carry. While tech races toward thinner, faster, smarter, Heavy Use moves in the opposite direction.
Toward slowness, permanence, and the impossibility of interaction. By stripping the smartphone of all function and recontextualizing it as a collectible artifact, the work reflects on digital dependency, planned obsolescence, and the emotional drag of constant connectivity. What remains is an object that can’t update, can’t notify, can’t distract, only exist. This brick phone is fundamentally useless. Or, perhaps, finally useful, a phone that leaves you alone. Personal Project in Tokyo, Japan - 2025.
