ASTEROIDEA

The concept is inspired by a micrograph sent to Nikon’s Photomicrography Competition. Captured by Dr. Laurent Formery at UC Berkeley, this is a 2-month old baby seastar. It is photographed using confocal imaging, fluorescent lighting, and image stacking. This particular species of starfish is a part of the Asterinidae family and falls under the class name Asteroidea. Each side was laser-cutted from lighting white cell-cast acrylic with 45% transparency—featuring hand-tied rose- gold aluminum wire, through small holes along the edges (wire varying from 18 to 24 gauges). The table lamp uses a 40W Edison LED light bulb at a temperature of 2700K, giving off soft white lighting.