Thanks for the Sun Light Sculpture by Arnout Meijer Studio

In Thanks for the Sun, emerging Amsterdam-based designer Arnout Meijer sculpts light to replicate the gaseous color shifts at the center of our solar system. Thanks for the Sun was Meijer’s 2013 Design Academy Eindhoven graduation project, and has since evolved to include the follow-up series Thanks for the Planets (2014) and Thanks for the Sky (2015). Each hypnotic light sculpture in this ongoing exploration uses hundreds of LEDs mounted inside an acrylic structure to allow the user to shift between gradients of warm and cool light and, ultimately, to transform the ambiance of his or her environment.The highly conceptual designer explains his project like this: “Unlike any other sculptural medium, light is constantly in motion, traveling in straight lines! These objects explicitly engage the spatial and sensory aspects of light, its aesthetics, and its immaterially, by unfolding the complexity of our encounters with the myriad aspects of the raw material, light!”