Week 5 - Lighting Concept

The focus for this week was figuring out how we wanted to light our piece and come up with a reasonable way to achieve said lighting concept. We decided to emphasize the counterweight aspect of our original idea by having the bottom glow and the top be lit with multiple, more visible light sources. The most important criticism/idea from our midreview last week was to leave the flower morphology terminology aside for the interior petals, and begin to think of them as lighting infrastructure. We really liked this idea because it allows us to bracket our thinking of the interior petals with pragmatic concerns: size of the lights, wiring, connections of wiring, degree of emanation of light, etc. So, here's what we came up with:


So we've added to our interior structure 3 extra petals. The inner petals are specifically lighting infrastructure, the next set out receive light and bind the outer sepals together. The elevation is an in-process drawing of one of the inner petals. At this point, the verdict is that we just need to test all this stuff physically and make sure it works. We'll be doing a lot of that over the next two weeks, and will post more photos of the actual piece, which we haven't done yet (sorry).