Ted Bradley Shares the Making of the Samsara Light Sculpture
After much trial and error, Ted Bradley completes the Samsara light sculpture inspired by the sun bleached ribs of whale skeletons.
After five years of envisioning this design in his head and on paper, Ted Bradley walked away from his job to make the Samsara light sculpture come to life. Instead of the two months he anticipated the build taking, it actually took more than a year to perfect the design, and that’s after making five mold systems, experiencing hundreds of ring failures and using 1,300 pounds of clay. Inspired by the arching ribs of sun bleached whale skeletons, the fixture balances the tension between the fragile porcelain rings and the strength of the solid brass spine. From the looks of it, the laborious process was worth it when you see the finished product, the Samsara 9 Chandelier. Read on to see just how labor intensive this light sculpture is to make, in this month’s Deconstruction. Vision, Sketching, Modeling, Planning
It started with a feeling or maybe a mix of feelings all mashed together and a flash vision of a shape that represented them. It was white porcelain hoops lined up in a row and attached to a spine, like the arching ribs of a whale skeleton bleached in the sun.
There?s death in the sculpture, life and a tension between the grace/fragility of the porcelain rings and the strength/rigidity of the metal spine which were things I was working through in my own life. I sketched the vision dozens of times over five years, and...
After five years of envisioning this design in his head and on paper, Ted Bradley walked away from his job to make the Samsara light sculpture come to life. Instead of the two months he anticipated the build taking, it actually took more than a year to perfect the design, and that’s after making five mold systems, experiencing hundreds of ring failures and using 1,300 pounds of clay. Inspired by the arching ribs of sun bleached whale skeletons, the fixture balances the tension between the fragile porcelain rings and the strength of the solid brass spine. From the looks of it, the laborious process was worth it when you see the finished product, the Samsara 9 Chandelier. Read on to see just how labor intensive this light sculpture is to make, in this month’s Deconstruction. Vision, Sketching, Modeling, Planning
It started with a feeling or maybe a mix of feelings all mashed together and a flash vision of a shape that represented them. It was white porcelain hoops lined up in a row and attached to a spine, like the arching ribs of a whale skeleton bleached in the sun.
There?s death in the sculpture, life and a tension between the grace/fragility of the porcelain rings and the strength/rigidity of the metal spine which were things I was working through in my own life. I sketched the vision dozens of times over five years, and...
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