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This is the second chandelier that I’ve designed, and as such it expands on many of the ideas I was working with the first time around. Like my original design, this piece plays with the idea of the performance of a chandelier.  Rather than light itself, it has a surface that is optimized to refract available light, and thus changes its characteristics significantly based on changes in its environment. 

The surface of the chandelier is designed through a scripted computer process I developed that produces highly refractive curvatures and a variable percentage of perforation.  By changing the variables in the script, the surface becomes more or less perforated in different areas as it reacts to the localized balooning of the surface.  By setting these variables to make random selections within a certain range, a sort of snowflake logic arises in which there are infinite orgainzations at the micro scale and a coherent formal language at the macro scale.

The chandelier measures 24” x 24” x 24” and is produced as a solid single piece by SLA, a technique that allows a composite material to be printed in three dimensions using a laser cured resin.  The computer automated production works in concert with the ambitions of the design as it allows for the multiple iterations of the chandlelier to be produced without added expense and guarantees that each chandelier will be unique. After printing, the chandelier is chromed in silver or black, fitted with an integrated mounting device, and packaged.