Luminaire

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.