Ma Lamp
Collectible Design
This project explores the space between material and perception, where meaning forms through experience. It invites a more conscious way of seeing, where light, form, and absence exist in balance.
Exhibitions
Rhett Baruch Art+Design, Out of The Blue, Los Angeles 2020
Date
Jul 20, 2020
Location
Los Angeles, US
Ma refers to a gap, a pause, the space between two structural parts. It is not emptiness, but a charged interval where meaning takes shape. This collection explores the space between form and formlessness, between light and darkness, where presence is defined as much by what is absent as by what is seen. The Ma Lamp is a limited edition piece created for the “Out of The Blue” exhibition at Rhett Baruch Art and Design Gallery in Los Angeles.
Dimentions
200mm x 250mm x h 1300mm
Materials
Jesmonite, plastic tubes, and LED strips
Production
Handcrafted, moulded shape
Lamp Materials
Three materials define the Ma Lamp. Jesmonite forms the base, a composite of a reactive mineral and a water based acrylic resin that creates a textured, grounded surface. Glass introduces reflection and transparency, shifting how the object is perceived from different angles. LED light moves through and around these elements, altering their presence and creating layered visual effects. Together, they produce changing relationships between solidity and illusion. Ma emerges not as a fixed form, but within the perception of the person experiencing it.
Experience
The disintegration of depth invites a slower and more attentive way of seeing. As light refracts and surfaces overlap, boundaries begin to blur and spatial cues become less certain. The viewer is drawn into a state where perception is continuously adjusting, searching for structure while encountering ambiguity. This shifting experience creates a subtle tension between what is physically present and what is mentally constructed. In that space, awareness becomes more active, and the act of looking turns into a process of interpretation rather than recognition.
“Out of The Blue” exhibition at Rhett Baruch Art and Design Gallery in Los Angeles.
