Sad Beautiful Waste
Updated 08.01.25
Dug up from the crypt; the drafts; the appendix; an archive.
Sad Beautiful Waste is an initiative by Studio Betty Wang to document work that never reached the public. Unused work reflects not only the unseen and often messy labor behind polished, finished projects but also the broader aesthetic, political, and commercial forces that mediate what shows up in the world.
The thesis here is this: Practice is not linear production, but an ongoing negotiation between desire, risk, and constraint. The real body of work isn’t just what is made, but what is imagined, attempted, and refused.
The thesis here is this: Practice is not linear production, but an ongoing negotiation between desire, risk, and constraint. The real body of work isn’t just what is made, but what is imagined, attempted, and refused.
TLDR; Behind every final design is a really messy figma board with 250 killed ideas. Here they are.