The concern for the perishable and the discardable is a theme introduced in Ahrarnia’s smaller sculptural works. The silver coated copper shovels from his The Dig series are engraved and embossed with motifs which refer to legacy, complexity and richness of various objects and excavated relics particularly relating to Egyptian civilisation. Ahrarnia is curious about the institutional handling of these excavated objects of heritage and the ramifications of the widespread, growing fascination about ancient Egyptian art forms in the recent decades. Although to us the shovel is a new object, there is the possibility of it being relinquished and rediscovered centuries in the future. Ahrarnia dwells on this cyclical notion of losing and finding and how that affects the writing of our history.