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Roots & Ruin TF-0003

Provenance

  • 2025-06-19 Root mass begun
  • 2025-08-30 Completed and struck with plate TF-0003
  • 2025-10-02 Acquired by private collection, Vancouver BC
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Roots & Ruin

Hand-wound copper root system closing over a ruined keep. Every strand is laid individually — the tangle is structural, not decorative.

  • Piece numberTF-0003
  • MaterialsHand-wound copper, preserved moss, cast miniature
  • Dimensions410 × 460 × 400 mm
  • Weight7 kg
  • EditionOne of one
  • Forged byTwisted Friends Custom Metalworks
  • Begun19 June 2025
  • Completed30 August 2025
  • Current collectionPrivate collection, Vancouver BC

Inhabitant

The Keep

Not a figure but a building — a tower and curtain wall being slowly taken back. The only piece in the ledger whose inhabitant is architecture.

Certificate of authenticity

Roots & Ruin. Struck by Twisted Friends Custom Metalworks, Calgary.

This record certifies TF-0003 as an original work of Twisted Friends Custom Metalworks, struck with the studio mark and entered in the ledger.

Registry TF-0003 twistedfriends.truecollarbuilt.com/piece/roots-ruin