Flame Core, translucent and fluorescent acrylic sculpture with found light

Flame Core (set of three)

Translucent, transparent & fluorescent acrylic, found light
36 × 30 × 30 in. each
2026

Ignition is not treated as spectacle, but as architecture. Arranged as a set of three, each form gathers around a singular vertical axis of found light. This spine doesn't illustrate a burn, but structures it, organizing surrounding acrylic remnants into "heat as image": memory, pressure, and impact held in permanent tension.

Each acrylic plane is an interrupted line, bent once into resistance. The work builds through collision: rigid pieces cantilever, overlap, and lean, forming a crystalline field where flame is replaced by engineered friction — edges, joints, and industrial constraint. Across these thermal strata, intensity blooms outward and remains bound. Against nightlife imagery, Flame Core refuses imitation; it turns ignition into an object and holds it there.