Le Massif
It Did Not Break. It Arrived Broken.
Le Massif is cast whole, in one dense pour, before anything is done to its surface. What looks like erosion is added afterward, and by hand — the outer skin is struck and pried away in sections while the composite is still workable, at angles nobody measures first. Nothing about where it breaks is decided in advance.
This is why the piece can't be repeated exactly. Two castings from the same mold will still fracture differently, because the person doing it is reading the material as they go — where it wants to give, where it holds. A machine could cut a pattern that looked like this. It couldn't make this one.
The name comes from the shape a mountain range takes when it rises as a single block instead of many peaks — a massif. This is a small version of that idea: one mass, under enough pressure to crack, still standing.
Still standing where it cracked.