Bocci and Diez Company illuminate fire’s transformation into light

Bocci and Diez Company have conceived a philosophical meditation on luminescence rendered in glass and shadow. The Origin, born from this collaboration, returns to the elemental relationship between fire and the material that captures it, asking how light itself begins and becomes visible to the human eye.

Within deteriorating rooms where time has left its weathered mark across walls and doors, spheres of blown glass hang suspended in darkness. Each orb glows from within, its molten core casting warm amber light into the surrounding decay. The installation plays deliberately with contradiction: pristine, hand crafted vessels of transparency suspended within spaces of abandonment and patina. Black framed windows behind the illuminated globes suggest worlds beyond, while the rusted surfaces and peeling plaster frame each glowing form with archaeological precision.

The project photographs by Jorge Taboada reveal the contemplative intensity of the work. In one frame, a single sphere rests on terracotta flooring, its glow creating a perfect shadow beneath it, as if the light itself casts weight. In another, multiple pendants hang at varying heights through open wooden doorways, each one a small sun suspended in architectural void. The interplay between the warm honey tones of the glass and the cool decay surrounding it speaks to Bocci’s understanding of how light shapes perception and space.

This is not mere installation art; it is a statement about craft, materiality and the sublime simplicity of flame becoming visible through the transformation of matter. The work belongs to the Vancouver house’s broader investigation into how light, when given form through glass, becomes something we can touch with our eyes.

Imagery courtesy of Bocci (@bocci).