The sculpture presented is a 245 cm iteration of Erreur 404. Composed of quartzite, mica, and more than one hundred natural minerals drawn from the artist’s personal collection, the piece is bound using a natural mineral resin. The material composition blurs further the boundary between geological matter and human fabrication, assembling fragments of the Earth into a form that feels neither entirely made nor entirely found.

Erreur 404 continues James Haywood’s exploration of synthetic geology — objects shaped by contemporary hands yet carrying the weight and silence of deep time. Rising vertically like a displaced monolith, the sculpture evokes erosion, accumulation, and collapse, as if extracted from an unknown landscape or a future ruin. It stands as a quiet contradiction: precise yet unstable, deliberate yet ancient — an artefact from a world slightly out of sync with our own.