When I think of light, I think that's where friends are.

This project contributes to an exhibition event - Call for Light. It is organized by Bypass, an independent architecture publication based in Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand. Through connections with the editorial team at Bypass, I was invited to participate in their lighting design exhibition, with an open-ended brief -"light". Workshops from late 2024- early 2025 were held to share ideas and feedback with other designers. This would lead to a final exhibition displaying everyone's light design. 

In Light of Friends, is a wearable lighting design in which 6 animal mask designs are gathered together under a fabric tent. This tent is suspended up on the ceiling, and act as a lamp shade, while the masks have switches to light up the shade. Participants are invited to wear the masks, masquerading their identities in peculiar animal characters. From this, it sets the lighting tent as social place to have conversations with people and getting to know the light within unfamiliar faces.

This lighting design faciliates to a game of "Never Have I Ever". A host asks a series of ice-breaker questions, and casual topics for the participants to drop hints about themselves. Each participant has a light switch that they can turn on/off to answer "I have" or "never" respectively.