Product design is a lot of fun for me. I really enjoy getting my hands dirty and feeling my way through to the completion of a project. I enjoyed designing and making these lights.
‘Luminaire’ as an innovative light fitting was inspired by
the idea of ‘manna’ - or ‘blessings from above’ and designed to fit into the
theme and architecture of a building intended as a food emporium. An emporium
however that embodied a sense of wonderment and gratitude for all food and food
types within the context of ‘our daily bread’.
Designed to hang from the high heavenly ceiling the light fitting was
constructed to look as though ‘manna’ was falling from heaven to earth in a fructifying
gesture of pollination and insemination.
To this end I used an ostrich egg as a mould to initiate the
construction process for the actual light fittings and using resin as the
medium of construction I fabricated these fittings using lace and lace imprints
relying on the feminine associations these invoke. Tiny 10 watt incandescent bulbs were fitted
on the inside of these moulds. I also
created multiple tiny fragile resin moulds from chicken egg shells that caught
and scattered the light and these were hung randomly in between the larger
light moulds in order to realize the form as a whole. All
the moulds were then positioned on a mounting plate that was cut from wood and lime
washed the electric fittings hidden on the upper surface of the plate.
