Specimen 13 - Containment Core

Specimen 13 – Containment Core

Artifact Log — Day 061

A spherical containment unit with an exposed aperture, suggesting access without permission.
The form implies storage, yet offers no indication of what is held—or whether it is meant to remain inside.

Mirror glaze reflects the surrounding environment, collapsing the boundary between object and observer.
The neon rope encircles the body as a stabilizing measure, functioning as both restraint and warning—an external attempt to secure an unstable center.

As an artifact, the object documents a system designed to hold presence rather than resolve it.
Containment is provisional. The core remains active.

Dimensions: W 12 cm × D 14 cm × H 15 cm
Materials: Stoneware, mirror glaze, neon rope

Unearthed Artifacts: Post-Cyberpunk Relics from a Forgotten Future presents a series of ceramic works that sit at the intersection of speculative archaeology and cyberpunk futurism. Vancouver-based artist Wilson Makgawinata forms these bulbous, pressure-like vessels through a hybrid process of wheel throwing and handbuilding, pushing clay beyond its familiar functions. Small modular components such as screws, plugs, and spherical nodes are slip-cast and integrated as functional-looking attachments, creating a visual language of connectors, ports, and interfaces.