SALB FURCHAK is a symbiosis between blobs and boxes. As Nick Ervinck states, he catches organic blobs in rigid cages. He combines old, angular architecture with new, organic blob shapes and aims at balanced combinations, tensions and cross-fertilizations between old and new and between the physic and the virtual. Ervinck adds digital data to our reality and translates them into tangible objects. Does the yellow blob of SALB FURCHAK embrace the wooden framework, or does it try to escape from its sturdy grip? The title SALB FURCHAK is derived from the word 'blast furnace', a type of metallurgical furnace used for melting industrial metals, such as iron. Not only does this sculpture refer to the exterior characteristics of such an incinerator, it refers to the melting processes inside as well. When fuel, ore, and flux (limestone) get in touch with air, a chemical reaction takes place in the furnace. In a similar way, the combining of blobs and boxes results in a peculiar fusion. The two elements become inseparable, yet there is a continuous tension between the two.