Fading Light (2025)
A constellation of 1,495 slender aluminium rods hangs in quiet suspension, each one precisely cut to varying lengths, together shaping an ethereal architecture of light and shadow. Painted in a soft spectrum of fading warmth, the rods glow gently—like dusk settling over a landscape—where colour drains slowly into the encroaching dark.
At its heart, a single column of light breathes life into the form. Around it, pigment responds—growing richer, deeper, more subdued as it drifts from the glow. Like the delicate lines of a pencil sketch constructing form from suggestion, the structure’s central light column acts as both anchor and catalyst—its illumination gradually dissolving into darkness as the painted surface absorbs and transforms it. The fading paint amplifies the sensation of diminishing radiance, evoking the gentle retreat of daylight or the ephemeral glow of twilight.
Suspended in space, the piece conjures the silhouette of a floating cathedral or a hovering spacecraft—part sacred, part futuristic—hovering just above the earth, radiant and untethered. It is both monument and mirage, a meditation on impermanence, transition, and the exquisite beauty of light as it fades.