Claudia Comte’s work draws from natural phenomena, handcraft, and technological processes, engaging with the material histories of her chosen mediums and how forms evolve across time and environment. In her series of marble cacti, desert flora—species shaped by arid conditions—are relocated into new sculptural contexts. Each work begins as a chainsaw- and hand-carved wooden form, which is then 3D-scanned and milled from a marble block using robotic carving. Toby, produced from white Carrare Campanili marble—a material shaped over millennia through geological compression—merges organic form with comic-like stylisation, reflecting Comte’s idiosyncratic visual language. The titles reference individuals from the artist’s life, imbuing the works with a playful, personal dimension. By rendering these drought-adapted forms in marble— traditionally associated with permanence and classical sculpture—Comte brings together registers of time, ecology and art history, addressing resilience, adaptation and changing environmental conditions.