The weight of it all.

Within the darkening lines of our fists, men carry generations and generations of struggle and victory. You and I, we are the sum of every single man before us. Our power is beyond measure. And our will… it is divinely designed to bend the future.

The Atlas Light Sculpture carries the will, the strength and the resilience of mankind with deafening inertia. Rarely a crossroads so explosive and quiet at the same time.Towering 8 feet, at true human scale, and made almost exvlusively with mahogany, The Atlas inspires silence and reverence.

I took your breath away.

At the peak of summer we see life floourishing everywhere, from the trees to the skies to the unending magic of our fingertips. Sometimes light and shadow take a break and work together in the softest ways. The binary romance then rises to it’s most voluptous fashion, the feminine goddess.

The Muse Light Sculpture is a celebration of purity and the delicate interchange between light and shadow. Made with oak, steel and a LED light base it has the most essential curves meant to avoid any distractions while contemplating the enormous power of silence.

Icarus not Dead.

L2M celebrates our perpetual desire of growth with the Ascent totem. Humanity’s essential force, we all need a constant reminder of it’s incalculable importance.

In “Rising from Below” you will find yourself traveling on the Amtrak train to visit the lands of Crete, where Icarus set his first and final flight. One of the most beautiful and pervasive archetypes. Youth in pursuit of greatness as if the pull towards the cliff is unavoidable, as it collapse itself is a necessary step towards individuation and trascendance.

Into the voice.

“What can you more break… a broken one?” Ehsan Sehgal.

An unforgettable inflection point. Breaking the horizon to find every sliver of darkness hiding from myself and challenge every single truth. And for that, light had to be broken. I trust, as always, I will be able to put myself back together.

The Break Light Sculpture is a step into my own darkness. One with as many ghosts as are minutes in a day. A man keeping the untenable together by sheer will. I have to rebuild myself or fail doing so, there is no middle ground anymore. The Break is violent, gutural… barely standing and yet summoning all strenght to painfully break the baseline in two, and fall into the pain between yesterday and today.

An unpredictable life.

Deep in our hearts, driven by the rule of time and space, our thirst for discovery begins with a walk. A walk taking us away from home and into the lands of uncertainty.

Are you willing to go the distance? Are you willing to go through the darkest corners of your mind? What lies ahead if not our better self.

The Distance Light Sculpture, built now for a golf course, begun it’s walk at the weirdest meeting in Lima, sketched for a completely different client who declined it. Somehow the sketch made its way to a different person and so, if The Distance never guy up, and it’s just an inanimate, perpetual and static object why should you?

I put a spell on you.

The spell of life could lift or just drop us at any point in time. Rarely we contemplate that, whenever we’re on a peak of light, it is simply because we have experienced the valley of darkness… or viceversa. What could we do aside from enlargening our range of life then? Well, other than sharing it with loved ones, we just have to keep widening it.

The Infinite Light Sculpture is made of mahogany, steel and light. It twists and turns. It rises and falls. It is design to forego permanence on behalf of adaptation thanks to six pivot points, giving the sculpture an endless array of positions. And with every single one, it comes along the chance to study how light and shadow work together, to feel their utter interdependence!

The whisper of nature.

The perpetual “ohm” wavelength, traveling unobstructed through the universe, meets the drum, the beat of life and death, the bearer of purpose, in it’s maximum expression; the photon.

The Voice Light Sculpture was one unforgettable exercise of organic rhythm. Mahogany at it’s finest, bursting with life. It could be argued that it is homeomorphic but above that, there is definitely power in vulnerability.

The moment of break.

When was the last time you pierced the sky? What would happen if your fist broke a cloud? What does it take to reach beyond our conflicted selves. Is courage enough, maybe not, but it is definitely a good start.

The Reach Light Sculpture, originally intended as an exclusive esthetic exercise, without a conceptual background… a freestyle object, managed to carry a voice against my will. As if matter itself quietly revolted to let me know I’m nothing but a vehicle of my subconscious.

The thirst for more.

When asked about which human trait is my favorite I also fall on our “unpredictable” nature. Our ability to remain outside of the computational probability range. Perhaps it is the clock of time and space, perhaps our inherent stupidity but maybe it’s our love-hate relationship with uncertainty.

In the The Phoenix Light Sculpture we celebrate our greatest hero. He who jumped into the unknown, he who dared to touch the Sun. Fables will tell us that Icarus’ wings melted and he fell to his death. I think these fable-men were just terribly jealous and Icarus is hanging up there with the Sun, shinning and smiling.

The rubber band.

I heard that life itself is like a plastic rubber band. The confusing art of keeping the tension without cracking. And in a way, true art is not far from that; it’s all about finding that magical crossroads between order and chaos, a culminant point where while a system still holds it is also on the verge of failing, leaving us with the questioning.

The Tension Light Sculpture explores precisely that, it stands facing the precipice, right before the final decision is made. And it is up to you and me to wonder what will come next.

Fight or flight.

What if we choose to stand. What if we draw the line. What if we face the precipice of light and walk through it into the unknown. Could it be that life is nothing but an invitation to jump? An invitation to destroy our former self and reborn.

The Hero Light Sculpture rises to celebrate those who welcome fear inside their chests. The men and women that wake up every morning willing to meet their fate. May your walk into the unknown be unforgettable.

True self is emptiness.

Working on the three variables of L2M; light, matter and the Void within (represented by the magical number two) from a Jungian perspective; to try and see them from a new perspective I completed The Ghost. A snapshot of their very first meeting, when the Ghost materializes from the Void, courtesy of light and matter.

The Ghost Light Sculpture was built with a sacred Norwegian tree… a 200 year old white maple from the bay of Kinsarvik, a majestic fjord a few hours north of Oslo. Rarely have I seen such mystical pieces of wood… or such a great salesman.

Light is our resolve.

Our drive to survive circles the sky from dawn to dusk. At noon it stands at the highest. At noon we touch stars.

The Hope Light Sculpture holds light as hope itself, as the magnetic pull into absolution or redemption… the silent call of the rhythmic universe.

Why I sculpt.

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” Carl Jung.

The end result is rarely the purpose, it is more of a reminder of the lessons learned. By sculpting the intricacy and depth of the human body, after a glimpse of the soul, the introspective spiral is nothing short of maddening. I see myself in every angle as much as I feel the paradoxical eternity of a carved piece of wood.

The Fall Light Sculpture it points to violence, yet it is not. I believe it is closer to the truth than ever, more sincere. Made with mahogany, steel and a LED light source at the bottom… it is hard not to stare and fly away into our own selves.

The expansion of light.

When we ask ourselves what is truth or where do we find it, we often hit the antics of dogma. Dogma coercing our instincts. Claustrophobic dogma running through our veins.

If your life was on the line, if the ultimate truth depended on it… wouldn’t you scream with all you’ve got? wouldn’t you let light burst through your muscles?

The Face Light Sculpture is pure iconoclasm. It negates the camouflage of dogma. It is the latent feline within. It is hunger itself. Pure expansion. Light through muscle, light through lies, the painful breakthrough, the birth of our true self.Description goes here

The voice of the feminine.

Celebrating life, birth or beginnings without relying on the magnetic draw of the feminine, has to be one of the silliest pursuits. Vulnerability as a true sign of strength, pulling the forces of life into a perpetual centripetal force.

The Spark Light Sculpture is an anthem to the crossroads of life and perhaps the only L2M sculpture genuinely, openly and intuitively celebrating the feminine. Sensual, peaceful and altruistic. I still question myself why I cannot produce more pieces like this one. What a counterpoint between gravity and levity.Description goes here

A prison of hierarchies.

Stillness as the negation of life, of movement; how difficult is to find our true self, how difficult to let go of estranged expectations. We are after all, children playing the adult game, a game of routine and compromise.

The Mask Light Sculpture… another beautifully subversive piece, hiding symbols in plain sight with the golden proportions of pure mathematics. Behind it though, light chooses it’s own path, The path of creation, the path of chaos.Description goes here

Still forward behind.

For ages, since who knows when, the Sun has never stopped it’s tireless pursuit of of the Moon. Perhaps a romance never meant to be, or just one that we cannot understands. I always wondered if they’d ever hold hands.

The Inversion Light Sculpture attempts the impossible, that is, to produce a shadow made of light. The implications could range between utmost heresy and total oblivious neglect.

Hell with the box.

Maybe you’ve heard about that famous box… and how we should dare to think outside of the box. What if instead we reduce these boxes to a fraction of their size and build a universe with them?

The Birth Light Sculpture positions light as the natural product of organic growth through empiric methods against -and thanks to- the many obstacles life throws our way. The box containing the light is our understanding of it, our own voice forged out of experience.

Moments and memories.

If I ask you to tell me which memories last, chances are that those built on the extremes of your pendulum make it through. The peaks and the valleys. What event born inside the mist of routine is memorable?

The Memory Light Sculpture begun after discovering that our memories are stored in our muscles as electric impulses and every time we recreate one we’re not pulling one out of a database, we’re recreating it from scratch, always with a different perspective. Could it be that our memories are always changing?

The binary stars.

It is said the Sun and Sirius are twin brothers. They revolve around each other every 24,000 years in what is called one great year, from the iron age to the golden age. As of right now, in 2021, they happen to be approaching each other.

The Intersect Light Sculpture talks about the Milky way and how to many people it has a quite large human form. Or is it that we have the shape of the Milky way? either way, there’s some crazy esoteric connection between above and below.

The apex on our shoulders.

I am now convinced that every ounce of weight put on ourselves by the hectic rule of life is nothing but a test to our resilience, a key, a gift in fact to become immortal. The question remains, who deserves immortality and what does it look like?

The Resilience Light Sculpture is now sitting at the desk of a man who embodies it to the tee. Sometimes I think of him, working at night, lifting the world on his shoulders, all for his family, and with the biggest smile.

Toxicities of balance.

Inspired on the Vernal Equinox -the magical day when light and shadow equally share the day- it is meant to help us understand the concept of Balance through the subtle dance of light and darkness.

Read “Toxicities of Balance” for a wider perspective into the inspiration behind The Equinox Totem. The photonic interplay at display is perhaps one of the most mesmerizing and refined produced by Light2matter. Rarely does the contrast of light and shadow reveal their actual brotherhood.

The crucifixion of the self.

A terribly simple design dealing with one of L2M’s most important subjects, the mind. The Box totem invites us to withdraw the rule of reason on behalf of the organic presence of the Heart and for that we need lots of reflection & contemplation.

In “The Crucifixion of the Self”, L2M’s story behind its very first totem, the Ego goes to the electric chair in the hopes the shock with liberate the Self. Paraphrasing of course.Description goes here