For Lim Wootek, founder of STUDIO EGOSYSTEM, trash is never truly something to throw away. It’s suspended matter—potential waiting to be reactivated. With Dip, his new collection, the designer questions the very idea of recycling, choosing not to destroy but to preserve.

The project begins with common, everyday objects—often obsolete. Instead of dismantling them or transforming them until they become unrecognizable, Wootek immerses them in resin, encapsulating them in a solid pour that locks their shape and crystallizes their story. It’s an almost archaeological gesture: the object’s past isn’t erased, it’s made visible.

An iMac becomes the backrest of a chair. The screen remains there, unmistakable, while the keyboard and storage compartments turn into the seat. Technology—symbol of speed and constant upgrades—is frozen into a new function, slower and more physical. It’s not nostalgia, but an awareness of the planned obsolescence that governs our relationship with devices.

Elsewhere, a studio stool solidifies into a compact triangular seat, almost primitive. An adjustable mirror loses its reflective function, smothered by the milky translucence of the resin, and becomes pure sculpture. The object stops being useful and starts simply existing.

“Dip” pushes back against the logic of traditional recycling, which fragments and reassembles objects until every trace of their original identity is erased. Here, the process is a kind of casting: resin becomes skin, a display case, a reliquary. Every scratch, every sign of use remains trapped—transformed into aesthetic value.