Amoeba started with a pile of discarded plastic wall anchors from a random Chinese store. Instead of throwing them away, I cut them, reshaped them with heat tools, and pushed them until they stopped behaving like what they were meant to be.
I ended up embedding them into latex to create a kind of flexible “fabric” that’s soft but still has these rigid, spiky moments. Depending on how they’re placed, the anchors change the structure, and even how the light moves through the material.
The final piece is a lamp for children. It looks like a little organism—something between a germ and a creature—which is where the name Amoeba comes from. It’s meant to be touched, explored, and played with. The surface invites sensory play, and the light adds another layer of curiosity.
At its core, the project is about taking something completely low-value and overlooked, and turning it into something strange, playful, and full of life.
