Hi all, new here just getting used to things. I have been working on a piece.
I am close to finishing a piece for myself. It comprises of an unlit suspended classic incandescent lamp. Imprinted on the lamp is the text "I am reading the lamp by the light of the book" Below the suspended lamp is a light sculpture powered by flat led panels through a semi translucent 'solid surface material' on a laminated plywood base. The viewer would approach the piece to get close enough to read the text being: "I am reading the lamp by the light of the book" hence "the irony book- light" Please comment you guys are the first to see. and this is my first piece I have put "out there" Please check out the image on the link
I like it
Also, look up Lumio. The designer used Kickstarter, and it's a best-seller at the MoMA Store.
I'd love a room like Umberto Eco's with lamps like yours, but reading at work burns my eyes out, so Eco's would just be a pose for me. I do like to think of the addicts here as being the characters in The Club Dumas though.
Ingo Maurer-esque
Looks like a nice piece, very poetic, the sort of thing that Ingo Maurer would manufacture. Maybe drop them a line?
http://www.ingo-maurer.com/de/produkte
Simplify
I would get rid of the bulb altogether. It is a forced irony to read a bulb, as reading a bulb is not a logically sound reversal. More importantly, you bury two very good things about the book by making the book/ bulb dialogue. Without the bulb, the book itself ironically references illuminated manuscripts in a more logical way than the bulb thing, and there is also concept of the mental illumination of reading. By comparison to those 2 features of the book alone, the bulb thing feels very forced. I do love the illuminated book btw. It would certainly be a stronger and clearer piece on it's own.
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