A Darkness in the Light

29. October 2008 by Joe Gergen.

Halloween is coming up. All kinds of ghoulish things will be brought up I am sure, and I must say that I had a ghoulish thought yesterday.

Lately I have been working on some new table lamps. And so a nice artsy lamp needs a nice artsy shade. Now if you know anything about lampshades, you know that the right one can be fairly expensive. In fact often its the shade that makes the lamp.

So not being able to often find the right shade or justify the expense, I have ventured into experimenting with making shades. The task is exciting and challenging, since I can in theory design the shade just so but also know that now I have control over the entire lamp and cannot blame a less than perfect shade on not being able to find or afford one.

But that’s not the point. The point is that as I was working towards a recent lamp shade design, as I was sitting alone in my house, as I was sitting with one light on in the living room, as I was sitting in with no sounds disturbing me the name “Ed Gein” floated into my mind. The infamous Ed Gein, who among many disturbing things in his insanity had made a lampshade out of human skin. 

I had to take a break form working on the lampshade. There are things that are not good for creativity. Not good at all.

I am going to blame the episode on the approach of Halloween and will return to making the lampshade, which I assure you is made strictly from paper and wood.

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