A battered end table left on a London pavement or a single lost mitten might look like rubbish to most passersby. For Seoul-born artist Woo Jin Joo, who lives and works in Deptford, such encounters are the starting point of her sculpture. She gathers discarded furniture, garments and other abandoned objects on walks near her home and on her commute to the studio, then combines them with clay and glossy viscose thread. The result is a cast of uncanny figures that fuse animal bodies with domestic fixtures, as if half-remembered creatures had taken up residence inside household things. Scale is central to the work. Several sculptures stand as tall as the artist herself: human-sized figures cloaked in white and beige fringe slump on the floor or lean calmly against walls, waiting to be addressed. Smaller pieces are no less strange. "For Those Who Wade" (2025) is a black boot-wearing ochre arch of embroidered thread; "Murmur" (2025) balances a carved wooden table on a totemic fur-covered leg; "Oneiric Vessel" (2025) turns an ornately carved folding screen into panels of stitched fur. Earlier works such as "A Long Long Time Ago" (2022), stitched from old socks and textiles, show how long Joo has been building this bestiary from cast-offs. Joo describes her Korean-Chinese upbringing between two countries as the source of the mythology running through the work. East Asian folklore and shamanic imagery feed her belief that stories offer a different kind of knowledge from rational explanation, and that even the most mundane interaction can hold meaning. A discarded object, she suggests, arrives with a history already lived; her job is to imagine, build and find significance in what it could become next. The sculptures can currently be seen in Joo's solo exhibition "Bodily Inbetweenness" at Ruup & Form in London, which runs through 13 November. Early next year she will also present work at the Harley Foundation in Nottinghamshire, extending the reach of a practice that turns London's pavements into a hunting ground for the mythic.