BENJAMIN GILLESPIE
Benjamin Gillespie has been designing and meticulously creating illuminated sculptures in his Philadelphia studio for over six years. Each artwork flows from a wide spectrum of backgrounds that include engineering, woodworking, and a life-long appreciation of architecture.
Benjamin's newest design, Ascent, explores the malleability of wood with combined sculpted forms to create a rising placement of light. Each form incorporates led as a light source and is designed to more evenly disperse glow to create a more calming and comfortable effect.
Ascent further includes color finish specifically selected to highlight material while also coordinating with a dual light control that may be actively modified depending on the desired mood of the viewer.
Intended to evoke movement, Ascent pulls Influence from Marcel DuChamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase 2” whereby the movement here is upwards from the base to the top of the light. The rising placement of light is intended to evoke ascending movement of natural light throughout the course of a day with the ability to change in color reflecting the change in sky depending on the hour.
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