Abstract
Textile artist Suzanne Tick is known for incorporating unusual materials into her weaving: recycled dry cleaner hangers, Mylar balloons washed up on the beach, documents from her divorce. For this work, called Crossform Pendant Lamp, she used industrial fiber-optic yarn, a technology that was more than 150 years in the making. Back in 1841, the Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon first demonstrated that light could travel along a curved path defined by a stream of water; in 1960, Narinder Singh Kapany coined the term "fiber optics"; and 50 years ago this month, engineers at Corning demonstrated low-loss optical fiber. Tick combines in her sculpture 21st-century side-emitting optical fibers with the millennia-old practice of weaving to allow her lamp to glow from within.
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