Vessels of the Intangible
Designed by
Richard Yasmine
Vessels of the Intangible is a lighting collection situated at the intersection of design, art installation and theatricality. It investigates the latent dimension underlying perception and the emotional and sensory undercurrents that precede cognition, revealing the hidden architecture of experience as sensation arises before interpretation and feeling precedes thought. This body of work does not function as anatomical representation; rather, it interrogates the invisible forces that animate the body. The objects are tangible, yet what they evoke is not.
Each object dramatically transforms one of the five sensory organs, the eye, the ear, the nose, the lips and the finger, as a threshold of awareness. Manifested as sculptural light, the works become vessels for what eludes immediate apprehension: the afterimage of sight, the resonance of sound, the lingering trace of scent, the imprint of touch and the expectancy of taste, translated into states of memory, longing, desire, anticipation and resonance.
Crafted through diverse artisanal practices including metalwork, leather, foam, wood, inlay, embroidery, blown glass, rattan and enamel, the works release these organs from anatomy, allowing them to assume the presence of autonomous relics that are emotionally potent and almost devotional. Light functions not as illumination but as revelation, emanating from within each form as if the sensations it embodies were escaping the object and dispersing their interior energy into the surrounding space.
The project unfolds within a Neo Ritual Baroque that is psychological rather than ornamental. It heightens drama, tension and tactile seduction, allowing material to assume a presence that is at once fetishistic and quietly vulnerable. Surfaces swell, gather and pulse with restrained intensity, inviting proximity without offering resolution. Ritual is not declared or ceremonial; it is enacted through desire, through gaze, through suspended contact. The sacred is displaced into the suggestive field of perception itself.
Vessels of the Intangible shifts the locus of the work from object to encounter, where what matters is not what is seen, but what is felt.
Vessels of the Intangible is a lighting collection situated at the intersection of design, art installation and theatricality. It investigates the latent dimension underlying perception and the emotional and sensory undercurrents that precede cognition, revealing the hidden architecture of experience as sensation arises before interpretation and feeling precedes thought. This body of work does not function as anatomical representation; rather, it interrogates the invisible forces that animate the body. The objects are tangible, yet what they evoke is not.
Each object dramatically transforms one of the five sensory organs, the eye, the ear, the nose, the lips and the finger, as a threshold of awareness. Manifested as sculptural light, the works become vessels for what eludes immediate apprehension: the afterimage of sight, the resonance of sound, the lingering trace of scent, the imprint of touch and the expectancy of taste, translated into states of memory, longing, desire, anticipation and resonance.
Crafted through diverse artisanal practices including metalwork, leather, foam, wood, inlay, embroidery, blown glass, rattan and enamel, the works release these organs from anatomy, allowing them to assume the presence of autonomous relics that are emotionally potent and almost devotional. Light functions not as illumination but as revelation, emanating from within each form as if the sensations it embodies were escaping the object and dispersing their interior energy into the surrounding space.
The project unfolds within a Neo Ritual Baroque that is psychological rather than ornamental. It heightens drama, tension and tactile seduction, allowing material to assume a presence that is at once fetishistic and quietly vulnerable. Surfaces swell, gather and pulse with restrained intensity, inviting proximity without offering resolution. Ritual is not declared or ceremonial; it is enacted through desire, through gaze, through suspended contact. The sacred is displaced into the suggestive field of perception itself.
Vessels of the Intangible shifts the locus of the work from object to encounter, where what matters is not what is seen, but what is felt.
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