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 wall clock surrounded by 12 different breads as hour markers.

Time and food — both fleeting.
But together, they become a lasting memory.



✨ Shadows and Glow

The bread pieces don’t just glow — they cast warm, buttery reflections on the surface below.
It’s not only a lamp, but also an atmosphere.

Bread becomes light.
Light becomes time.
Time becomes art.


 

💬 Reflections

This project is a personal response to waste, nostalgia, and the overlooked beauty in ordinary objects.

  • Can something meant to be consumed… instead be preserved?

  • Can bread — a symbol of daily life — become part of an art installation?

  • What if time itself could be told through food?

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         Yanjie Keng

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