Inspiration
I named the piece Loie after the artist Loie Hollowell. I attended her exhibition at Pace Gallery last year titled Plumb Line. I thought to myself that her use of gradients with bold colors and geometric forms could be easily translated into washes of light.
I began to look into her other paintings, and came across The Land’s Part, a painting she did in 2017.
Loie Hollowell, The Land’s Part, 2017.
In addition to Hollowell’s paintings, I’ve always been inspired by the Art Deco movement - the patterns, the architecture, and the lighting fixtures that were being made in the 1920s.
I used to work at Remains Lighting, a bespoke lighting manufacturer that started off with antique restorations. One of my projects was to oversee the repair of these beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright stained glass sconces:
Objective
Light and Interactivity: to create a light fixture to be installed in an assigned room within the ITP floor. I chose phone booth #467, with the desire to cover the several holes that exist in the walls because of previously installed shelving.
Subtraction: use joinery to create an object. Below is a drawing of the final dog bone joint that I used to connect all of my pieces together. It took 3 tries to get the perfect tension fit, the hole ended up being a .02 offset from the key width.
Materials
3/4 plywood
Materials from the “scrap bin” at Remains
Ingersoll glass globe
Brass trapezoid + strips
Two-way mirror acrylic
Mirror Acrylic
Hue Light controller, created for Connected Devices assignment
Hue Light system
Process / Assembly
Glass globe print from Remains Lighting
