Unfinished Triangle by callum nash from uk

I wanted to create a piece that like any good piece of craft, would disguise the hand that made it, making the onlooker think "how was that made?"

This is what I admire most in craft, like a Ron Muek sculpture, the marks left by the tools of the craftsmen are invisible, leaving only the art and the mind of the artisan.

My idea was to create something simple, but beautiful, a lampshade that played with the light being produced by the bulb, transforming the form of the light, fragmenting it into a crystaline geometry.

Simplicity is the key, and this lampshade is two pieces of card, each one folded into a hyperbolic parabola, a double curvature not possible in paper without intricate folding. This structure is then attached to the cable of the bulb using a piece of string, it then becoming light enough to remain there and also far enough from the heat of the bulb so as not to be damaged.

I do not believe that craft is a defunct art form, I hope that this piece, along with the others submitted into this competition, do something to prove that craft is not defunct, and has perhaps changed beyond recognition, but manufacture by hand is how we all started designing as children, and is not something that we have left behind.

Callum Nash
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