Legally Blind Artist Makes Cracked Log Lamps Bursting With Light
Tasmania-based furniture designer Duncan Meerding loves the wilderness, which comes across in his work – his most popular pieces are simple logs whose natural cracks emit soft, warm light. Meerding is also legally blind (he retains 5% of his vision in his peripheries), so the use of light in his pieces helps him communicate how he sees the world.
“Many of my designs reflect my interest in light and its dispersion, represented by my simplistic forms and different lighting designs,” he writes on his website. “Being legally blind, this vision of light emanating from the peripheries and the highly tactile nature of my work reflect the alternative sensory world within which I design.” At his design school, he learned to adapt by feeling the grain of the wood and listening to hear when his chisels stopped cutting properly. He works with a speaking tape measure that he calls his “old mate.”
His cracked log lamps, as with many of his other pieces, are sourced from sustainable materials in order to preserve the wilderness that he loves so much. “My work should not merely be seen as something that looks nice, it should remind us of our intrinsic connection with nature and the effect that we have upon it.”
Be sure to check out his online store, where he has glowing cracked log lamps and stools for sale!
More info: duncanmeerding.com.au | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bigcartel (h/t: modernmet, sydney morning herald)
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omg these are absolutely beautiful. I love incorporating woodland objects to bring the forest indoors so it feels like the walls aren't quite so opaque and smothering.
I think it would be cool if, when you flipped them over, they had round solar collector panel on the underside hooked up to a battery + LEDs inside. When you leave them solar-side up they go into charge mode, then flip them over so a gravity switch completes the circuit and turns the lights on when you want to use it.
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Great looking furniture; especially fantastic r considering he is legally blind. Kudos more power to him.
omg these are absolutely beautiful. I love incorporating woodland objects to bring the forest indoors so it feels like the walls aren't quite so opaque and smothering.
I think it would be cool if, when you flipped them over, they had round solar collector panel on the underside hooked up to a battery + LEDs inside. When you leave them solar-side up they go into charge mode, then flip them over so a gravity switch completes the circuit and turns the lights on when you want to use it.
Load More Replies... Great looking furniture; especially fantastic r considering he is legally blind. Kudos more power to him.
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