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Written by Johnny Hollenberg
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Monday, 07 March 2011 21:30 |
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Welcome to the Light Entertainment website. This site is a digital photobook to let you see what sort of lamps I have made through the years and to show you some of the different types and shapes that are possible.The jobs I enjoy the most are when people come to me with a vague idea for a lamp but can't seem to find the right one. Through chewing the fat on location about likes and dislikes and needs and wants, I get an idea as to what would fit the bill so to speak. I then come along with lamps which I hang up and leave there so the client can live with it awhile. I find this the best way as a hurried purchase often leads to a nagging dissatisfaction. Lamps are an important feature in our living/work spaces so you may as well get it right. With one client, it took 7 lamps to get the right tone but in the end we got there. This is my advantage over the orthodox lighting retail stores, there you can buy a lamp but they don't / aren't geared to modify it to suit your surroundings .
I also revamp old lamps to give them a new lease of life, think of an old chandelier that could do with a facelift or the old lamp up in the attic which only needs a modern revamp to be able to "shine" again.. My speciality. |
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Written by Johnny Hollenberg
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Monday, 07 March 2011 21:24 |
Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum creates deeply personal and political works relating to the body, the artistic language of Minimalism, and the condition of exile. In Current Disturbance, she used varying electrical current in lightbulbs to generate effects of sight and sound. The bulbs fade on and off randomly and at various levels of intensity. Sometimes the current makes a crackling sound, and at other times a humming. It is like a malfunctioning nerve center in which some of the synapses fail to connect.
In formal terms, the rather pure geometric grid is minimalist; in associative terms, it recalls a prison cell, a camp, territory that is out of bounds. There is no entrance or exit, so viewers can only walk around this closed-off no-man’s-land, an empty inner space that nevertheless implies a human presence or absence. The flickering lights, like hundreds of tiny lighthouses, transmit a message of warning but perhaps also of hope of rescue.
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 March 2011 21:27 |
