AD Transcript: Luca Cimino, PDT, Wood, Metals, Plastics

CLM1 is a VCE Product Design and Technology, Wood, Metal and Plastics student work designed by Luca Cimino from Marcellin College, Bulleen, Wurundjeri Country.

CLM1 is a pendant light designed to illuminate and enliven an otherwise bland foyer.

Made of Victorian Ash and Acrylic, there are five interlocking and cascading thin beams of timber suspended with clear nylon string from the ceiling.

Each beam is wavy in shape and based on the curving road systems, potentially freeways, as is described in the exhibitor statement and goes on to say that the piece has been designed to be based around the Citylink M1 in the southeast of the Melbourne CBD, it’s end user, a traffic engineering company.

Along the pale brown of the Victorian Ash surface, heavily varnished with many coats making it appear more yellow and warm than is usual, six evenly spaced short and transparent acrylic rods protrude like struts along its length.

The struts create points of interconnection from one timber beam to another, to another, to another, creating a flow from top right cascading down and across to bottom left, and overall with the LED lighting strips along the bottom of each, the pendant lighting as if floats in space, where the light catches its abstracted outlines that appear to be like clouds…or rather road routes dreamily drifting by.