100 days · lamp design

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2020, again. The same kind of hundred days as the light sketches, run that summer and fall: one lamp a day, designed on the page. I was applying to grad school and wanted to push on a different part of lighting, the object itself. The luminaire. This sat close to something I was already doing with my hands, building my own furniture: a dining table, a bookshelf, a coffee table, the first lights. Drawing lamps every day was a way to think through all of it at once. Most days were throwing ideas at the wall. I would draw a form and wait to see if it made me feel anything. Most didn't. Some did, and I kept those somewhere in the back of my head. Looking back, this might be where it started: the sense that what I actually want to make is glowing objects people keep. Things that touch you, that you can touch back. Same exercise in discipline as the other hundred. The interesting part is what you reach for when you get bored: a new shape, a new mechanism, a joint you haven't tried, just to feel something on the page again.