Martha Eldered

To seek, to move on, to long for and to look back.

Light has always been a central part of everyday life. A few hundred years ago, people lived in darkness, with few windows and costly wax candles. Today, both homes and streets remain illuminated long after the sun has set. In Nordic regions, life is shaped by the change of seasons, shifting rhythms of day and night, disrupting routines.

My degree project is about showcasing light as a tool for the perception of time and memory in intimate moments of everyday life. The starting point of the project is to create an instrument that captures memory by tracing the movement of daylight across different moments.

I work in an architectural framework where atmosphere, body and systematics interact through light in an interactive object. How can I use light to create a bridge between the human and natural rhythm?