Solar
LuxuryLogico
豪華朗機工
Production date
2010
Object Detail
Media
lampshades and sockets, LED lights, MaxMSP programming
Measurements
350 x 350 x 45 cm
Notes
Solar (2010) consists of a large orb made of household lamps. They flicker, dimming and brightening hypnotically in apparently random patterns, representing the surface of the sun and its flares. The project began with three hundred desk lamps that were donated for the work, and converted to use LED bulbs. The soundtrack was mixed using audio files found on the Internet, including low, droning sounds allegedly recorded in space, possibly from a NASA satellite; it recalls the noise of an old dial-up internet connection. Instantly nostalgic for those old enough to remember, and emphasised by the old lamps that recall domestic interiors of the past thirty years, the experience of Solar is poetic and strangely moving.
Accession number
2011.058