Dhaan Sconce, 2025
Rice, PHA filament, aluminum, LED,
9’’ diameter shade, 6’’ from wall, variable cord length

The Dhaan (धान) Sconce honors the materiality of rice, drawing from its historic role in Rangoli, where crushed rice grains became both medium and message in the making of sacred geometric forms in domestic places. Today, Rangoli patterns are still drawn in front of homes to bring good fortune into the space.
In staying true to both material and method, the exposed wire is an intentional graphic line that echoes the visual logic of sacred geometry and the mapped pathways of Euler’s circuits, reinforcing the honesty of its construction. The shade is composed of a PHA base, into which rice is melted, preserving an otherwise ephemeral material and gesture.
To move beyond its first iteration, Dhaan can become part of a larger collection, one that composes sacred surfaces through repetition, placement, and form. Can it live on the wall or settle on the floor? How might it be moved with intention, turning placement into ritual? Dhaan invites not only light, but reverence, an offering to space through material and memory.