RELICS OF THE RESTLESS
Rivets of Ruin is an industrial metal project and geospatial installation operating out of Chicago. We document the violent transformation of heavy materials—clashing raw, salvaged steel with surgical precision and synthetic, toxic neons.
The digital archive is governed by four frequencies. You do not browse; you tune in to the signal that resonates:
The Refused: Salvaged, rusted, and defiant. The beauty of the discarded.
The Reckless: Loud, volatile, and overdriven. Metal interrupted by synthetic, neon chaos.
The Restless: Encoded and cryptic. Objects etched with sigils and hidden memory.
The Refined: Cold, exact, and symmetrical. Chaos locked into surgical form.
The archive bleeds into the physical world. I manufacture functional curiosities—heavy scribes, deciphering discs, and precision tools—and bury them throughout Chicago’s industrial corridors and alternative hubs.
They are left for the restless to find.
Discover an artifact. Enter its cipher into the archive. Unlock the exact coordinates, CAD blueprints, and welding logs of its creation.