Dilator

This piece was born from a pair of exceptionally cool bomber pilot map lights.

By rotating the lenses they change from warm white, to blood red! As soon as I found them I just had to build a character around them.

Every element was found — scrap yards, second-hand stores, dumpsters — then cleaned, stripped, sorted and rebuilt. Found aluminum is TIG-welded and sanded seamless; nothing is cast. The electronics are salvaged from consumer devices, repaired and rewired so the piece does something when you touch it.