Umbul-Umbul Table lamp by Cindy Evangeline
Cindy Evangeline is a graduating student of industrial and product design at the National University of Singapore. She is currently developing her thesis around the modernisation of craft techniques, with the idea of light as a material and traditional Indonesian crafts as a reference. Cindy takes inspiration from the Javanese/Balinese craft of janur, which she knows from her childhood in Indonesia. Janur means “divine light”, and janur crafts are used in various festivities as they signify prayers and blessings travelling between the earth and the heavens in the form of light. Cindy has connected this symbolism with the typology of a paper lantern, and has experimented with contemporary optic fibres with the aim of creating a lighting product that harmoniously blends all three aspects of her project. Sandwiching sandblasted optic fibres between papers of differing thickness has proved promising, and Cindy plans to use this as a basis for the creation of various forms extracted from the traditional janur. In this way, she hopes to produce her own take on the paper lantern — a Southeast Asian version of the Noguchi Akari lamps lit by optic fibres.
Origin: Singapore
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