Light Inside Metal: Making Event Horizon
A copper body that glows from within — how Event Horizon came together, and what a threshold feels like.
Event Horizon began with a simple, stubborn question: what if the metal could hold light inside it?
The name comes from astrophysics — the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing returns. I was drawn to that idea of a threshold, a line between presence and disappearance. In the sculpture, light leaks from the seams of hand-hammered copper, so the object seems to be on the edge of becoming pure energy.
Technically it was the hardest thing I have made. Copper, patina, microcrystalline wax, and LED, all in one body, each material with its own temperament. The light had to feel like it belonged to the metal, not like a lamp hidden inside a sculpture. That took many failed attempts and a lot of patience.
What I love now is how it changes a room. In daylight it is a dense, geological object. As the room darkens, it opens — the seams glow, the mass dissolves, and for a moment the heavy copper looks like the most weightless thing in the space. A threshold, exactly.