Commissioned through Cibone Gallery in Tokyo, this work was created in collaboration with the architects and owner of a contemporary Japanese restaurant who sought a large-scale light feature that would provide a striking counterpoint to the restaurant’s more classical interior language. The brief called for something bold, unexpected, and playful—a suspended artwork that would disrupt the refined aesthetic with a burst of colour, humour, and visual complexity.

To realise this concept, thousands of coloured translucent and transparent plastic objects were sourced, the majority purchased from London pound shops. These everyday items—mass-produced, kitsch, and intentionally inexpensive—form an archive of contemporary disposable culture. Removed from their original purpose and transported across continents, the objects acquire new significance when gathered into a single sculptural form.

The resulting installation resembles a hovering, luminous flying saucer—an assemblage of “unidentified flying objects” unified into a vibrant, disc-shaped light feature. The layered plastic components catch and scatter light, creating a dynamic field of colour that shifts as viewers move around the piece. The work oscillates between the playful and the monumental, the familiar and the alien.

By embedding mass-produced objects within a refined architectural setting, the piece invites a dialogue between cultural aesthetics: traditional Japanese craftsmanship and the saturated consumerism of Western discount culture.