Sara offers tailored responses to specific lighting needs, at multiple scales, within the particular contextual dynamics of your project. Light has no volume, no texture - though, of course, it certainly does. We can feel it, it takes up perceptual space. What is revealed in these questions is a sensitivity - a bundled network, shifting and pulsing at the bottom of experience. Light tugs - penetra
tes, fills, dims, morphs, moves - on this network, our collective connective tissue. These questions stir up productive dissonance and contradiction. Despite the rich complexity of experience that can be enabled by light and shadow, we believe the most prominent models for lighting design yield flat, static environments that directly undermine its medium. The adoption of universal standards prescribe a sameness that makes one feel reduced to a single way of being in the world - over-lit and fully revealed. At Sliver Shoe, we push back against this model by designing with relative standards, from experience out. By allowing for shadow to support light, we design suggestive spaces that welcome inhabitants to participate in their completion, not just seeing, but feeling a space, allowing for a tactile experience to emerge. A tactile light allows us to both understand space as it unfolds for us, as well as with all of our senses. At its best, light helps us render a narrative through space, allowing our own unique identities to grow into (and out of) a particular place. At Silver Shoe we aim to do away with prescribed, magazine flat, space - We strive to embrace the dark and allow a thickness of space to emerge out of experience.
