Maria White Mebane ceramics

Inspired by organic vessels and surfaces, she celebrate natural textures in her art the play of light on water, the unique patterning found on animal ekins, insect wings, the delicate shapes that define a flower in bloom. She is interested in the tiny details of great beauty we see in the natural world and how light interacts with these forms and surfaces. she work in porcelain; throwing, carving and giving each piece a unique, tactile pattern. In some cases, She will sandblast her work to give it a smooth texture like that or river stones. Her intent is that her work asnks to be touched and ultimetely adds to a space whather it is used domestically or decoratively.

http://www.mariawhitemebane.com

A highly translucent porcelain to create forms that give light

Snce 1983, a love of the translucency of fine high-fired porcelain has led to the development of ways to create thrown forms that give light. A more affordable range of porcelain lighting for industrial manufacture is being created using the experience gained through years of handling and firing the material, as well as continuing to make one-off thrown pieces in the studio. In 1999, time at the Wades Porcelain Ceramic Factory in Stoke-on-Trent was spent creating a lit porcelain cast form that could be industrially manufactured.
Sometimes paper and pencil can help to work out how the practical electrical engineering could be incorporated. Sometimes it is through playing with the clay on the wheel and watching what happens when slight changes are made to the thrown shape. It is impossible to say how it all happens.The quality of light and feeling the translucency that high fired porcelain transmits has inspired finding ways of making the work illuminate without showing the mechanical parts. Although this has been a long, difficult and time consuming process, it is one that had to be done as part of the work.

http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2006/take-me-home/margaret-ororke.html

dreaming goldfish

goldfish is getting me crazy!
now i see goldfish even in my food
can you see it?

like expired goldfish?

glass goldfishlike a expired goldfish

Rob Zinn glowing lamp

These glowing, colorful pieces are made of white plastic panes, whose reverse sides are printed with vivid colors to reflect colored light onto the preceding planes.

interested in jellyfish lamps ?

if you go into the website, please don`t miss to see the "more jellyfish" space, they have lots of examples of the lamps they have sold. Right now some of them are used as decoration in the MGM hotel at Las Vegas

sizes variable: approx. 16" x 16" x 36"
handblown glass, neon

http://www.neon-sculpture.com/marine_art/jellyfish_1.htm

Isamu Noguchi's lamps

Isamu Noguchi's iconic Akari light sculptures are made from handmade washi paper and bamboo ribbing, making them both delicate snd strong. Though they were designed in the 1950s, they fit right into more contemporary environments.

http://www.noguchi.org/