A human worked hundreds of hours in a cave during the Ice Age some 40,000 years ago sculpting the Lion-man from mammoth ivory for reasons not to be explained, but to be felt in ritual.

From ivory carvers to designers of microchips, Sōmonk is a bedroom studio that idolizes human progress by precise jouissance of form using millennia-old knowledge and parametric discipline.

Meditations froze in silver’s molecular memory. Each pour is obsessed over. Outsourcing nothing and following recursive déjà vus until the form feels inevitable. Sōmonk for you and me