I’ve been working on and off with Brooklyn artist Josiah McElheny for several years now, doing some of the 3D CAD and fabrication control legwork for his spectacular cosmologically-based chandelier sculptures. The first, An End To Modernity, was one of my first major freelance projects out of design school, and still counts as one of the most fascinating, both in its intention and in the technical challenges it posed.
The most recent project in this series is entitled Island Universe, and features five different chandeliers, each expressing a pared-down aspect of the universe’s expansion. It opened on October 14th in the White Cube Gallery in London’s Hoxton Square, and photos have just been posted to the gallery’s site. They’re beautiful. More screengrabs after the jump.
