The Idea

I know what I’m doing! Joy! I intend to design and make a bespoke chandelier that casts shadows of risqué images and text when switched on but in ordinary light, will be a beautiful artefact in its own right.

This is a REALLY rough sketch of what I mean:

An existing example demostrating what I mean:

Although this is a mammoth task (as I haven’t actually made a chandelier before) I feel it’s the perfect solution to communicate my message. It encompasses all of the ideas I’ve been working with – disguise, censoring, making porn beautiful, the matter of “I know it when I see it”. Going back to my original proposal – ‘I’m interested in disguising pornographic content in a way that appears beautiful and of a higher cultural form than the original media.’ My main desire at the start of this project was to create something that people would immediately find beautiful but then have to take a second look because they’re not exactly sure what they’ve been looking at and admiring.

Obviously I have a considerable amount of experimenting to do – with materials, distortion of the images, how it will need to be displayed etc.

These are some photos I took of the shadows cast by the laser cut to give an idea of what the shadows can look like.