useless lamp

We usually hope or expect things to last forever, or at least we tend to think the longer they last the better they will become. But, what happens when it’s just the opposite, when they disappear before we can start to enjoy them? The Useless lamp is not just a simple provocation; it has been created out of need; the need to explore the importance of absence. The Useless lamp is an electric light captured in a block of melting ice. We are aware of the imminent loss of the lamp from the moment it is switched on. The same light that gives it life is simultaneously slowly depleting its existence, and yet its message lies in this mysterious fragility. What happens when this piece’s disappearance becomes something much more valuable than its own presence? Can the absence become the primary function of a product?