Known for his Cracked Light Log, Tasmanian furniture and lighting designer Duncan Meerding combines light with wood again in his latest design, a whiskey cabinet called ‘Light from Shadows’.
Duncan Meerding’s unique approach to design originates from his eyesight: “I am ‘legally blind’ with less than 5% vision, concentrated around the periphery. My vision showcases over all forms and light dispersing around the outside of objects and forms,” he says. “If you look at a lot of my work, it is reflective of this.”
Light from Shadows, like many of his other works, explores the quality of light in combination with wood in a piece that not only features a beautiful tree-like light pattern on its cabinet door, but also is operable – when open, the light is off, but as soon as the door is closed, it lights up.
For the pattern, Meerding was inspired by: “the dappling effect of tree branches when walking under forest canopies in nature,” he says. “This light from shadows effect is something I have been working with since 2014 and the effect is possible to integrate into architectural features or pieces of furniture or even hanging 2 dimensional works.”
The Light from Shadows whiskey cabinet was installed at Salamanca Arts Centre this year as part of the Winter Light festival.
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