Bread Lamp: Turning Real Bread into Light
Bread Lamp: Turning Real Bread into Light What if bread could glow? This project explores the poetic and surreal transformation of real bread into a functioning wall lamp . Through carving, resin-coating, and assembly, ordinary pastries become luminous sculptures — glowing softly like memories preserved in amber. 🧩 Real Bread, Real Craft We didn’t sculpt fake bread. We used actual toast, croissants, bagels, waffles — the kind you’d normally eat for breakfast — and gave them a second life through light. Each bread piece was preserved with resin and integrated into a grid-based clock structure. 🔧 From Pastries to Light Panels Behind the scenes, the bread was: Carefully hollowed or carved Coated with resin to retain shape and translucency Mounted with small LED bulbs inside a wooden frame We handled every step ourselves — from drilling to gluing, wiring, testing, and polishing. 🌕 Bread O’Clock : The Final Work And here’s the final installation — a surreal, glowing ...