Spolia absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archaeological tools on (deconstruction) sites, they are hidden testimonies of political dependencies, collisions between ecosystems, art in galleries, and even elevators in office towers. Input: strange simultaneity of symbols - immediate, available, and ready to be transformed. Output: remnants that are reorganized to serve architecture and its demands. We look back into the future and forward into the past. We build, dig, find, collect, and continuously assemble to produce meanings.