Conor was obsessing over the prospect of making a hanging light fixture out of a bicycle wheel. When I say "obsessed", I mean about 3 mentions of the light in a week. Imagine how happy he was when I found one! It was literally lying in tall grass. It looks to be in mint condition, but upon further inspection, you can see that the hub is very bent and impossible to fix without causing structural damage to the metal. It fit our designs perfectly though.
We hung it from the ceiling, around an old dome-shade with very thin metal wire. That combined with a very oddly textured reflective insulation material makes it look very much like a UFO. The fairy lights that we hung to turn this chic lowbrow lamp into a chandelier make it look a little jellyfish-ish.
The light is dispersed nicely throughout the room as the wheel is angled outwards. The fairy lights' reflection makes a trippy pattern on the TekFoil (basically thick and shiny bubble wrap). It's like staring into a new age candle or lava lamp. There's something about dim lights that is oddly appealing. We must be more closely related to moths than we tend to think. Only we turn away when the lights get harmfully bright. I think that moths have an Icarus complex. But I digress...
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