IC LIGHTS CW1 Opal glass wall lamp

Wall-ceiling lamp providing diffused light.‎ Frame in brass, brushed and transparent varnished or chrome steel.‎ Blown glass opal diffuser.‎ This collection explores balance.‎ There is a series of lights: table lights, wall lights, ceiling pendants and ceiling mounted lights which take as their basic form a sphere that is perfectly balanced on the edge of a rod.‎ I came across an online video clip of a contact juggler.‎ He was spinning a set of spheres, moving them around on his arms and edge of his fingers.‎ And as I got mesmerized by the magic of his skill, suddenly the spheres look perfectly still.‎ I wanted to capture that exact moment.‎ This was my starting point.‎ The initials IC come from the codes that English police use to define the perceived ethnicity of a person they stop in the street when reporting back to the station.‎ IC1 means white person or Northern European type, IC2 means Mediterranean European/Hispanic, IC3 indicates an African/Afro-Caribbean person, and so on, so this is a playful story to define the different designs.‎ Michael Anastassiades