Finally, I finished my paper-cut night light as the project of light art practicum. The basic concept comes from shadow box, which made from different types of paper and LED strip light. After 7 weeks’ design, attempts, failure and polish, the project is completely done. The original design After deciding to make a night light,…

This week, I completely finished the project by making the surface look better and more solid. Also, I added a base support to enable the light to be stably set on table. To make it solid, I used my “fail” idea, which is overlaying lots of paper tissue on the original frame by using glue….

This week, I finished assembling everything together, and installed the light source at the bottom. The whole project is about eighteen layers of cardstock and uses LED strip as the light source. For now, it is quite fragile, which is a little out of the shape, because the frame is also made by cardstock. I…

I don’t really have failure this week, since there is little technological element in the project. After deciding to change the subject of the project, I created this flat version of what I want the night light look like. One failed experiment is that firstly, I would like the “moon” to be the only light…

I combined my two concepts to have both paper lamp and the idea of light box. I have built a “moon” using balloon and tissue, which after the glue is dry, it becomes a paper cover. Then I have install a bulb inside it, which makes this “moon” be the main light source of the…

My basic idea is inspired by the light box and the decoration of glowing glass jar. The reason I am interest in light box is that even you turn off the light, the light box itself is still a wonderful art work. For this project, I would like to create a paper sculpture covered by…

In 1989 Peter Ersikine created a new Solar Spectrum Environmental Art medium called Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations (S.O.S.). S.O.S. is about the beauty and dangers of Sunlight: the beauty of the rainbow and the horrors of global warming, ozone depletion and mass species extinction. Like the beauty of the rainbow, this new art…

A long time ago, art making becomes a part of my life, but it has been limited to traditional painting methods by using a pen and paper. It is a really convenient way for me to record what I am interested in at anytime, anywhere. After attending to WPI, I started to contact and learn…