Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight
About this artwork
Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight was produced in conjunction with the lighting company OSRAM. It contains a sufficient quantity of light bulbs to provide a person with a lifetime supply of simulated moonlight. Each bulb burns for 2000 hours, and a ‘lifetime’ contains 289 bulbs, a calculation based on the average life-span for a human being alive in 2008 (when the artist produced the work). The viewer enters the darkened room and encounters a light bulb suspended on a long cable from the ceiling. The rest of the bulbs are lined up on shelves, awaiting their turn.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Katie PatersonScottish (born 1981)
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title:Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight
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date created:2008
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materials:Set of 289 light bulbs with halogen filament, frosted coloured shell, 28W, 4500K
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased with help from the Knapping Fund 2011
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accession number:GMA 5172
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Katie Paterson
Katie Paterson
Katie Paterson studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 2000-04 and at the Slade School of Art from 2005-07. Her work has explored themes of ecology, geology and cosmology, dealing with large and distant occurrences in nature and the universe. She transforms them through the use of everyday objects...
