Where the studio is going

This one is mostly the lighting. You’ve said that’s where you want to be spending your time, and almost none of it is on YouTube or Pinterest, which is where someone looks when they are trying to find work like this. These answers are how that changes.

Pick any one and record it as a voice note. Five minutes is plenty. Don’t prepare.

Answered ones come off this list as we go.

1. How did the sculptural lighting start? What made you want to make light as well as surface?
2. What is different about designing something that gives off light instead of catching it?
3. Take one of the sconces and talk me through how it gets made.
4. What do you want the lighting side of the studio to be in three years?
5. What would you make if nobody had commissioned it?
6. Is there a material you have not worked with yet that you want to?
7. What is the pattern that exists only in your head so far?
8. If you could put a piece anywhere in the world, where would it go?
9. What is the biggest thing you would take on if someone asked?
10. Who would you most like to work with?
11. What is the smallest thing you would like to make?
12. What would have to be true for you to say yes to a project instantly?
13. What do you want to stop doing?
14. What would you want the studio to be known for in ten years?
15. What would you want a designer to understand about the work that they don’t yet?

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