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Physical work, with AI as design, wiring and fabrication partner

Wire Plant Lamp

2026 · made for the lamp exhibition at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco

Wired, on its poured concrete slab.

A store-bought white ceramic pot, retail sticker left on, filled with concrete. Seven stiff coloured wires are planted in it like stems; five end in small lights and the tallest is left bare and dark. It sits on a 12 inch round sage-green concrete slab on a salvaged iron stand. The centre light is a gutted household bulb with my own LEDs inside.

Everything runs at 12 volts from a sealed adapter, with bare LEDs, visible resistors and a brass terminal strip. No soldering.

What AI did

Claude worked as the design and engineering partner: the electrical plan (12 volts only, the terminal strip layout, series versus parallel, the power supply), catching a short circuit on the strip before power went on, the concrete mould and pour steps, the parts lists and build guides, and 64 concept renders to test ideas before building them. The decisions and the hands were mine.

Early stage: the pot with bare wires — Early stage: the pot and its bare wires.

Concept render, wired — Concept render, made with AI.

Concept render with the bulb — Concept render: the gutted bulb in the pot.

Concept render on the stand — Concept render: on the iron stand.

Metal panels

in progress · September 2026

Painting supports made from thin aluminium sheet glued to half-inch MDF with contact cement, sealed with a two-part epoxy primer, then gessoed: 28 panels at 13.5 × 12 inches cut from one 4 × 8 sheet. Claude researched the glue, board and cutting choices and wrote the build guide; the method is saved as a reusable skill for the next material.