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Lumina Design: Fibre Optic Works

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Fibre Optic Chandeliers
The present work involves the use of textile weaving techniques with optical fibers to create a series of chandelier designs. Each chandelier is constructed from an intricate volumetric array of optical fibres woven through concentric plastic rings or discs, lit and coloured by metal-halide and miniature LED light sources. Transparent sculptures by day, they transform into a dynamic and colourful light displays by night.

The design for the optical fibre chandeliers developed out of the body of work from the Master of Design degree, the graduation exhibition of which was entitled Illuminated Transformations: Light, Jewellery, and the Body. The chandeliers are an extension of optical fibre pendants that were used as portable pieces of illuminating jewellery in a dance performance at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

The illuminating jewellery gradually substituted the use of actual movement by the body into impressions of movement and form itself. These forms evolved into chandeliers that were fitted with more intense light sources. The present work funtions to cross the boundaries between art and design by extending the context of jewellery for the body into jewellery for the interior.
Undulation
Year: 2006
Dimensions: ~1m height x ~1m diameter
Materials: PMMA fibre optics (1.5mm diameter), polypropylene, halide light source with remote-control RGB colour wheel
Purchase: Currently, all enquiries can be directed to luizamilewicz@hotmail.com
Undulation installation (2007) for Workshopped 07 exhibition at the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
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Swirl Light
Year: 2007
Dimensions: ~1m height x ~1m diameter
Materials: PMMA fibre optics (1.5mm diameter), polypropylene, halide light source with remote control RGB colour wheel, false wooden ceiling of ~1m diameter (used in installation but not intrinsic to the design)
Purchase: Currently, all enquiries can be directed to luizamilewicz@hotmail.com
Nevicula
Year: 2009
Dimensions: ~800mm height x ~180mm diameter
Materials: PMMA fibre optics (.75mm diameter), glass beads, Perspex, aluminium, LED light source
Purchase: Currently, all enquiries can be directed to luizamilewicz@hotmail.com
Asterionella
Year: 2009
Dimensions: ~500mm height x ~300mm diameter
Materials: PMMA optical fibres (.75mm diameter), Perspex, aluminium, LED light source
Purchase: Currently, all enquiries can be directed to luizamilewicz@hotmail.com
Tabellaria
Year: 2009
Dimensions: ~1m height x 180mm diameter
Materials: PMMA optical fibres (.75mm diameter), Perspex, glass beads, aluminium, LED light source
Purchase: Currently, all enquiries can be directed to luizamilewicz@hotmail.com
Milewicz Generacje Exhibition, 2009
Galeria Amfilada MOK, Olsztyn, Poland