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:
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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 or…
