The ‘OMMA’ Light
With the Wander Glider dragonfly, otherwise known as Pantala Flavescens, as my inspiration, I diagrammed and eventually created a lamp inspired by the dragonfly’s eye structure. An individual ommatidia informed the structure of the lamp, which was made primarily from watercolor paper and a lot of time lasercutting. Kirigami models made from paper were first created to transform 2D diagrams into the 3D space. My light sculpture transformed the light into three different types of illumination through shadows and layering.