Durability through Transformation explores the idea of emotionally durable design through several materials that change their properties through the artist’s manipulation. The focus of the work is on the process of creating intriguing forms through changing materials like soap through heat. The experiments show how objects can gain an increased product life cycle if they change their properties and appearance to avoid boredom of the user audience.
Inspired by the Noguchi exhibition at the Barbican Centre, I was interested in exploring lighting and its influence on the environment. This lighting installation is made from soap, which expands in the microwave, creating cloud-like structures encasing small LED lights.
I decided to create a lighting installation from my microwaved soap experiments. I was interested in exploring lighting and its influence on the environment, inspired by the Noguchi exhibition I had visited. I was fascinated by the meditative effect Noguchi’s lamp sculptures had on their audience and how they had transformed the cold concrete of the Barbican gallery space entirely into a warm and inviting living room-like ambience. To achieve the desired effect, I stacked microwaved soap clouds on top of each other after inserting small LED lights into their centres.