As soon as I returned from Tokyo about a week and a half ago I got straight to work creating the pieces for the exhibition at Material. I was very happy to get started on these ideas and put them into physical form.

I had done some testing and sketches for the layout of "You & Me" and knew it was going to be a larger scale piece. This is an image of the ceiling section that the lights would hang from. It's a fairly large piece (4 ft x 8ft x 6ft), so building a large, flat white section of ceiling for it to hang from was a bit of a task. The other difficult part was constructing a wiring scheme from the ballasts down to the tubelights. I had broken one of the glass tubelights early in the testing because the metal brace was on too tight. For a while I was unsure of the weight of the lights hanging by themselves and being pulled from different directions wouldnt just break the whole 'Me' section apart.

Here's an image of the 'You' part soon after completion to make sure the electricity was running correctly.

Me next to "You and Me"

Here's a lovely picture of the setup for "Blue 88". I wanted this piece to be as clean as possible. It's all right angles and white wires. The color filters I got in Tokyo and are a very nice deep blue. I tried to find fluorescent color tubes here in the States but they were this aqua-blueish color; no good. If you're up on your LED technology you know that blue was the last color they were waiting to develop before LEDs could go full spectrum. It was all red and green for a long time, and as soon as blue came out in the late 90s it led to a burst in the applications of LEDs since they could now produce every color; r-g-b.