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Refraction Lamp
This lamp engages with the dichotomy and changeability of light and shadow—and it is intended to explore the idea that comfort and uncertainty are part of an ever-changing and ever-present spectrum. This lamp was designed using Adobe Illustrator and then cut into acrylic by an Epilog laser cutter. The laser cut pieces were then constructed into a lamp using acrylic adhesive. The design of the lamp was intended to play with light refraction through its shape and its transparent acrylic material. This material and the peripheral slats of acrylic that compose the lamp refract the light from the bulb at the center, casting shadows on the space surrounding the lamp. The light and shadows cast by the lamp can be manipulated depending on the space the lamp is in and its orientation within that space. Uncertainty is represented by the shadows cast by the lamp while comfort is represented by the warm light coming from the bulb.
Meg Nicolaou is from Los Angeles, California and is currently a senior at Gallatin studying intersections of art and writing. Meg’s work revolves around themes of sentiment, memory, and sensorial experience. She is interested in exploring what it means to experience emotion and how emotions are inspired. Drawing from personal experience, Meg ventures to interrogate and convey what it means to perceive and feel. Through methodical art processes such as print-making, book arts, and fabrication, Meg meditates on the themes of her work as she produces them. This imbues within her art her own understandings of her personal sensorial and retrospective experiences—and the final artistic works prompt viewers to do the same through the art’s form, content, and material composition.
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