LOT-EK, LITE-SCAPES

LITE-SCAPES

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LITE-SCAPES

a collection of lights reuses disposable packaging and their amazing formations

type

objects

completed

2002

exhibited

Henry Urbach Architecture gallery, New York / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Galerie Zurcher, Paris

dimensions

variable - approx. 8"x12"x3"

materials

clear, pigmented rubber cast in packaging molds + neon tubes

collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Tom Healy & Fred Hochberg / Sherri Wolf / Melanie Ide & Christiaan Kuypers

awards

concept & vision

we marvel at the shapes and complexity of vacuum-formed packaging, and decide to explore them differently, through light. We cast neon tubes in rubber, using discarded vacuum-formed packaging as the mold, as a series of light fixtures that celebrate the packaging landscape and topography

impact & significance

we encourage pause, and cultivate looking at ordinary, disposable objects twice. The candy-colored lights are complex and playful, obvious and surprising - we care for this tension