The first prototype of this work is constructed from exactly 1,000 exploded party poppers gathered on the morning of 01.01.00, immediately following the Millennium celebrations in London. As dawn broke over the Southbank, the ground was strewn with the remnants of the previous night’s festivities: empty champagne bottles and hundreds of vivid plastic popper casings, each one burst open at the same precise moment as crowds across the world welcomed the year 2000. What remained on the pavement were not simply disposable party objects, but traces of a collective ritual—tiny relics of a historic transition marked by a global explosion of sound, colour, and anticipation.

The prototype chandelier is both sculpture and archive. Its 1,000 components form a material record of that singular moment when the old century gave way to the new. By gathering and preserving these fragments, the work transforms ephemeral party waste into an artefact of cultural memory, honouring the shared euphoria of the Millennium countdown.

Although the original piece is unique due to its provenance and narrative, the chandelier has since been recreated using newly sourced party poppers. These contemporary versions echo the form and spirit of the prototype while acknowledging its unattainable specificity. When touched by a passing breeze or slight movement in the air, the chandelier responds like a living organism—its suspended elements drifting and swaying, momentarily dissolving the geometric structure before gracefully returning to its iconic diamond shape.

In this interplay of fragility, movement, and memory, the work speaks to the fleeting nature of celebration and the human desire to capture time’s most charged moments within material form.