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FRAGILE FUTURE 3 in Meribel
FRAGILE FUTURE 3 in Meribel
Méribel, Les Allues, France
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FRAGILE FUTURE 3 in Meribel
Méribel, Les Allues, France
For a private home in Meribel, France, this commission was created in May 2011.
The Fragile Future series of light sculptures explores this
relationship, evoking an imaginary possibility of how it could develop.
Real dandelion heads are arranged within a phosphorescent bronze
structure closely resembling a circuit board. Each individual dandelion
seed is glued by hand onto tiny LED lights. Dandelion heads,
colloquially referred to as ‘clocks’, recall memories of childhood
ritual and the passing of time. In life, dandelions decompose when
touched by a breeze or by a breath. In Fragile Future, the dandelions
are transformed into something immortal. A peaceful presence resounds
from the illuminated ‘clocks’, though at the same time light is being
used to reflect something darker and more complicated.
Preserving the life-form destroys the life force, preventing the seeds
from spreading and renewal of life. Although the dandelions appear to
float within the frame, in actuality they are contained. Underlying the
gentle poetry of the work is an unsettling sense of our own, human,
impermanence. The ‘Future Noir’ design conveys the truth of sentience:
to feel is also to die.
Fragile Future has received much recent acclaim, winning the first
‘Artprize’ in 2006, and the International ‘Lights of the Future’ prize
from the German Design Council in 2008. In 2010 Drift were awarded the
Moet-Hennessy PAD London prize from their Fragile Future Concrete
Chandelier.
Fragile Future 3 is developed in collaboration with The Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London.
The Fragile Future series of light sculptures explores this
relationship, evoking an imaginary possibility of how it could develop.
Real dandelion heads are arranged within a phosphorescent bronze
structure closely resembling a circuit board. Each individual dandelion
seed is glued by hand onto tiny LED lights. Dandelion heads,
colloquially referred to as ‘clocks’, recall memories of childhood
ritual and the passing of time. In life, dandelions decompose when
touched by a breeze or by a breath. In Fragile Future, the dandelions
are transformed into something immortal. A peaceful presence resounds
from the illuminated ‘clocks’, though at the same time light is being
used to reflect something darker and more complicated.
Preserving the life-form destroys the life force, preventing the seeds
from spreading and renewal of life. Although the dandelions appear to
float within the frame, in actuality they are contained. Underlying the
gentle poetry of the work is an unsettling sense of our own, human,
impermanence. The ‘Future Noir’ design conveys the truth of sentience:
to feel is also to die.
Fragile Future has received much recent acclaim, winning the first
‘Artprize’ in 2006, and the International ‘Lights of the Future’ prize
from the German Design Council in 2008. In 2010 Drift were awarded the
Moet-Hennessy PAD London prize from their Fragile Future Concrete
Chandelier.
Fragile Future 3 is developed in collaboration with The Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London.
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