OWL: Objects With Light

We’re not sure what your relationship with lighting is like, but we’ve had a long love/hate thing with lamps. There was the Banned-In-College-Halogen-Torch-Lamp phase in college, the First-New-York-Apartment-Track-Lighting phase, and currently the Take-Me-Seriously-I’m-A-Professional-Writer-Goose-Neck-Lamp phase. What London artist Georgiosi Ignatiou does isn’t just about screwing in a 100-watt bulb and calling it a day. It’s also not mood lighting, because God knows there are enough lava lamps in the world. Let’s call it a provocative, artistic lighting solution. The pieces are clever and use everyday elements like marbles, sponges, colanders and saw blades to throw crazy shadows around the room. It’s just a bonus that they also look hot when they turned off. Ignatiou is also a poet at heart, writing little stanza’s like this about his work: Slinky walking down the stairs / Here I split one into pairs / To give it flight and make it bright / I hung one pair around the light. You just can’t get that kind of rhyme-scheme at Pottery Barn.