WORK

Lightship Library
2025
Stoneware, Glaze
58 cm × 15 cm × 44 cm

Lightship Library, 2025

Knowledge has always guided humanity forward, much like light in the dark. It helps us understand the world, connect with others, and imagine better futures. At a time when libraries across the globe are under pressure – challenged by artificial intelligence, financial constraints, and political forces – their role feels more critical than ever.

Inspired by Helsinki’s Oodi Library, Lightship Library draws on its architectural structure and spatial dimensions, while moving beyond a direct reference. What interests me is not only the building itself, but what a library represents in the 21st century: a public place of creativity, social connection, and community exploration. Rather than focusing solely on books as the traditional form of knowledge, the work reflects a broader idea of learning – one that unfolds through shared resources, activities, and skills; serving as a space for democratic exchange in real life.

I reimagine Oodi’s ship-like form as a lightship – a symbol of movement and guidance. Elements reaching upward suggest sensing and communication, expressing openness to the world, to ideas, and to one another. Blue tones point toward clarity, open-mindedness, and shared access. They also suggest an ocean of knowledge – something to move through not only by reading, but also through conversation and encounter. Drawn patterns reference play, reading, and making, reflecting how knowledge circulates through collective experience and creative practice.