Residual Protodermis

Residual Protodermis was made during the last semester of Design Art Technology at ArtEZ and presented during the ArtEZ Finals 2026.

Some things we loved as children do not disappear; they wait. Boxed, shelved and half-forgotten they keep the shape of the hours we once gave them. Some also begin to carry a price. Residual Protodermis follows the quiet inflation around Bionicle, a Lego theme discontinued in 2023, whose sets now steadily climb in value on resale platforms. Often bought back by those who first outgrew them.

Through sculptures, scaled and reworked from the toys' own parts, and prices gathered across months of sales, the work treats this appreciation as a form of worth, where sentiment, having outlasted play, returns as value. What it traces is worth as something unfixed and accumulating — held by some, sold by others.