bench & light installation

Druker Gallery; Cambridge, MA

This installation was part of the Immaterial/Ultramaterial exhibit at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2001 following an investigation of how phenomena - light, touch, sound and smell - can shape and choreograph space.

Along the periphery of this space, colored fiber optics were embedded into a foam bench. The lights focused on the opposite wall as circles of seemingly white light, but when people interfered with these boundaries their shadows appeared on the wall as bright colors. The space appeared empty until human movement disrupted the equilibrium and revealed a colored composition that changed with each moment.

This project was featured in Immaterial/Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design, and Materials

Date: Completed: 2001

Project Size: 100 sf

Project Budget: Withheld

Designer: Tala Klinck with Toshiko Mori and Shozo Toyohisa

Photography ©Tala Klinck