transience of light

EUROLUCE SHOWROOM - MELBOURNE

The project explored the idea of transience, something that keeps changing within space and time. The design was made from over eight thousand table tennis balls which were threaded onto one and a half kilometers of fishing line. The lines of balls were divided into intervals that correspond to the Fibonacci series which was progressively offset horizontally to create a spiraling background pattern. These patterns were then arranged behind one another to create a complex layering of relationships that seem to change when the piece was viewed from different angles.

The dynamic aspect of the design became apparent when pedestrians moved past the showroom window and the piece transformed into a dynamic, flickering and spiraling vision . In reinforcing the relationship between the viewer and the viewed, the design created an effect beyond itself and placed the viewer’s perception as the primary medium that was being manipulated. The project sought to address the transient materiality of the urban realm and bring into focus the perceptual potentials that lie within the immaterial nature of the urban façade.

*Shortlisted - Australian Interior Design Excellence Awards, Event Design category, 2012