Fibonacci’s Back Door
Copper-in-resin wall relief · Pearly Beach · 34°40′S 19°30′EMaterial Field Notes
The Collection
Sculptor Ché Hough’s poetic taxonomies examine the architecture of the ocean — its speed, its debris, its collective bodies, its deep time. Each work begins where the flesh ends and the structure shows: the line of force, the shape of the school, the frame of the breach. Made by hand at the southern tip of Africa — cast, shaped or gathered from water-based composite, reclaimed rope and what the sea returns — the collection reads the sea the way a sailor reads its surface: not as scenery, but as energy held in form. A taxonomy of energy, not objects.
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The Specimens
Suspended skeletons — the architecture of speed, reduced to essential structure. What survives is never the flesh — only the frame.
The Entanglement
The silent crisis of ghost gear — named, witnessed, and answered.
Ghost Tide
The witness that named the silent crisis — the work the series continues to answer. Held in the artist’s private collection.
Ghost Tales I
Collected beach rope · the transmutation
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The Harbour Line
Industrial harbour rope · the retirement
Edition of two · one availableSurface Tension
Wall and column works at the skin of the water — the exact moment a body breaks the surface.
Cartography of a Breach
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Kinetic Dolphin Tail
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Kinetic Dolphin Dorsal
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The Shark
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Piscis Volans
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The architecture of the swarm — the moment individual bodies become a single organism. Research into the mathematics of collective motion, the hydrodynamic logic of the school, and the defensive geometry of the bait ball.
The Invisible Law
Notation and measure in wall relief — the rules you cannot see, the mathematics of the weather translated into form.
Functional Sculpture
The same coastal logic, applied to the spaces we inhabit. Vessels, surfaces, and architectural spatial interventions.
Functional Sculpture
Functional Sculpture
Elemental Vessels
Basins, lights and vessels at the scale of a room — functional sculpture cast from a hand-sculpted master. A basin that is also a sculpture; a light that is also a form. Each cast and fired individually.
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Tactile Tectonics
Tiles
Hand-cast GFRC and ceramic for the wall — HIVE, the hexagonal module, and Singular, the tile made once. Cast at small scale in the studio; the same coastal logic, applied to the surface that faces the weather.
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Spatial Intervention
The Honeycomb
HIVE at the scale of a home — the module becomes architecture. A residence in Suiderstrand wrapped in the honeycomb, with suspended sculpture within.
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Each piece is made once, by hand, at the southern tip of Africa. We welcome enquiries from private collectors, interior designers, and architects regarding available works or bespoke commissions.
Enquire about a commission or specific piece →All works cast in acrylic, water-based, VOC-free composite. Solidity asked to behave like memory.