About
Jared is a light artist, photographer and multidisciplinary designer. He specialised in computation in design during his final year at LASALLE College of the Arts' BA (Hons) Design Communication programme.
With over nine years behind the lens professionally, shooting everything from music to motorsport, weddings to commercial work, he has long been fascinated by how the world reveals itself through light. Photography has trained his eye to notice what others walk past, to read a scene and to wait for a moment, an instinct that now shapes everything he designs.
Jared's practice spans photography, videography, light-based installations, craft and editorial design. He brings the same attentiveness to making by hand as he does to working with light, every detail considered and every object carefully built.
Curious and explorative by nature, Jared is drawn to subtleties, to slowness, to the beautiful things in life we pass by without seeing. He is fascinated by the quiet relationships between people, objects and environments: the ones that shape how we experience a space without us ever realising.
The Slow Lamp | Behold
The Slow Lamp is an interactive light object that exists alongside us. There are two variants of The Slow Lamp, Original and the Living Edition, where the former is designed for personal spaces and the latter for social settings.
As the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in a world ruled by hyper-connectivity, the mere act of beholding becomes increasingly rare. Our devices compete for our attention at every turn, pulling our gaze toward screens and away from the world immediately around us. We scroll through images of sunsets rather than watching them. We document celebrations rather than experiencing them. The present moment, in all its quiet richness, slips past largely unnoticed. The Slow Lamp begins with a simple question: instead of fighting for our attention, what if technology could give our attention back to the world?
The Slow Lamp doesn’t seek attention, but creates the environment to invite presence and reflection.
The Slow Room | Behold
The Slow Room is a model for slowness. The Slow Room is a room designed to invite one to slow down and reflect on life through meaningful activities and interaction with objects in the room.
The Slow Room is now the context which past experiments from Behold reside, from The Foil Series, to the Light Dome, to Subtle Beauty in Everyday Life, giving each activity and object context and meaning as they relate to each other within the walls of The Slow Room.
The Slow Room
Conductive aluminium tree found in The Slow Room
Merlion Sling
Born from the subversion of a popular icon, the Merlion Sling combines the Merlion with the Singapore Sling. Two icons come together in a single image, giving new meaning to each element. At 1/50th scale, even icons look better with a cocktail.
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