What is the connection between light, consumption, and abandonment?

In the middle of a suburban landscape, discarded streetlamps—once symbols of light and safety—stand as silent witnesses to the culture of consumption and obsolescence. This project emerges from the heaps of abandoned waste in a communal field, seeking to donate life again to these dead objects. The aim is to question the societal impulse to replace rather than preserve by exploring a graveyard of objects that have now exhausted the course of their existence as it has been planned.

The video investigates how the objects come to life through their interaction with the surrounding landscape, shifting from their original reliance on electric light to a dynamic interplay of natural light and reflections.

This project’s aim is to value these “dead” objects, highlighting their history as witnesses to cycles of use and neglect, showing how decay becomes a testimony to the impact of time and human behavior. Working with decommissioned street lamps, the project also critiques the tendency to forget about the waste produced and the negligence in disposing of it, while also proposing imaginative perspectives of use for objects destined for oblivion.