Library Lofts

Occasionally, it happens to the best of us. The lighting you thought was going to arrive on your project, doesn’t. What you did get isn’t exactly what you expected. Oh, and it’s expensive. And already installed. And there are lots of them.  

What then? Panic? Throw a tantrum and shut down the project? Tell the contractor to rip them off the building and replace them? Well, yes, if it is an inferior unapproved substitution that bears as much resemblance to what you specified as, say, a cantaloupe to a golf ball.  

But what if it is close to what you wanted? What if it was supposed to be a 3-degree Tunable -White DMX floodlight and instead it is a static white 2700 DMX with the same 3 degree optics? You can tell the factory rep to make the problem go away, meaning the fixture needs to be uninstalled and replaced with the new one, resulting in a massive cost in equipment, a staggering labor back charge, and a finished project that is now behind schedule. Not to mention leaving egg on the faces of everyone involved, including yourself.  

Or you improvise. If you are a football fan, or even a fair-weather one like me, you realize that some of the best plays, and by that, I mean the broken ones, began when something went awry right from the snap. You leave the DMX fixtures stay in place, bejeweling an already attractive piece of architecture. And then you make them dance. You call it A Symphony in White, with movements as follows: “Lantern”, “Candles”, “Breathing” “Chasing”, “Fountain”, “Leapfrog”, “Waves” “Champagne”. 

And it looks like this: