
Light 2 (Warren Light) is the product of a research interest in the cord of a hanging pendant lamp instead of its light or diffuser. Aside from providing illumination, pendant lights are simple machines that store potential energies in suspension cables as they are pulled taught by the weight of the hanging bulb below. In conventional pendant lights, the stored kinetic energy of the light is expressed only in the relative size of the lamp – a larger light, loaded with the energy of a larger suspended weight, expresses itself only as an implied threat of a spectacular crash to the floor should the system of suspension fail. Light 2 searches for a new way of mobilizing this energy that allows the latent physics of suspension to develop attitude and posture in response to environment. By lacing the cord through a series of tunnel-like cuts in stacked plastic sheets, the potential energy of the suspension cord is expressed as a mode of occupation. Driven by the weight of the bulbs below, the cord burrows through and inhabits a warren of hanging infrastructure.