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Contemporary Ceramic Design by Peter Biddulph
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aldebaran1
790
1 of 39
aldebaran2
790
2 of 39
aldebaran
790
3 of 39
altair
590
4 of 39
antares1
690
5 of 39
antares
690
6 of 39
apodis1
590
7 of 39
apodis2
590
8 of 39
apodis
590
9 of 39
arcturus
490
10 of 39
deneb-group
590
11 of 39
deneb
590
12 of 39
hadar
1400
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lupus
490
14 of 39
masjid1
POA
15 of 39
masjid2
POA
16 of 39
masjid
POA
17 of 39
matar
POA
18 of 39
mekbuda
1250
19 of 39
polaris
450
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procyon1
450
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procyon
450
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rastaban1
550
23 of 39
rastaban2
550
24 of 39
rastaban
550
25 of 39
sol
480
26 of 39
syrma1
590
27 of 39
syrma2
590
28 of 39
syrma3
590
29 of 39
syrma4
590
30 of 39
syrma
590
31 of 39
tarazed1
790
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tarazed2
790
33 of 39
tarazed
790
34 of 39
terebellum1
850
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terebellum2
850
36 of 39
terebellum3
850
37 of 39
terebellum
850
38 of 39
vela
1300
39 of 39
Embedded In the wall of each sculpture towards the base is a tiny socket connected
to the LED inside, which illuminates the bundle of fibre optic cables. The LEDs
require very low voltage: for a single piece a mobile phone charger is plugged
into the sculpture; for installations of three or more pieces a single power point
is all that is required as a series is run from a single dedicated Phillips LED driver.
This permits a flexible, modular system in which the pieces can easily be interchanged
and relocated. A piece can be plugged in and out of the series; i.e. they are not all
’hard-wired’ together. The LEDS, which illuminate the fibre optic cables, are new
generation, high intensity LEDs with a manufacturer’s estimated life of ten years.
The LEDs can easily be replaced.
The light emitted by these objects lends to their placement in rooms and hallways where
subtle, ambient, nighttime light is required. Since the pieces sparkle at night I named
each piece after a star and now, rather surprisingly, images of the pieces often appear
in a Google image search before those of their eponymous giants.