Cocoon research

"The Top Secret is a light fixture made from shredded acetate. Besides the obvious play on waste/privacy, we think the lamp mimics a constructed animal nest or insect cocoon. Just like some animals build their nests out of left-behind findings, the shredded acetate lamp is also constructed of discarded fragments" (taken from source)

After I saw this image, it got me thinking of the different ways that I could construct my own cocoons and the various ways that I could display them. I found this idea of using them as lights to be very interesting. The use of materials also got me thinking about materials that I could experiment with, such as synthetic hair, shredded paper, crumbled chipboard and thin sheets of plastic.