Function guides the form of this light sculpture. Each Basket light sculpture is handmade to suit a specific space. Krugman has been working with this form for over a decade, intrigued with its versatility at scale and its multiple axes of symmetry. Krugman originally created this shape as a table-top size light sculpture but quickly moved on to making centerpieces for dining rooms and foyers, and then eventually, brought the form to the building scale in 2019. See Krugman's Capella Basket for his largest of the series. Two ten-foot Basket sculptures are also installed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Building 77 and New Lab. Another ten-foot Basket is a permanently installed at Baker Park in Naples Florida.
A sheet of LEDs rolled into a tube and connected together at its center. The top and bottom of the tube are folded backwards and fully attached to one another other yielding the final form. The light sculpture is based on a 4-sided polygonal mesh. The mesh takes its mechanical and structural cues from the electrical requirements of the LEDs. Each requires two conductors to power it and two conductors supply the surrounding LEDs. The mesh can be used to create tubes and donuts but not spheres. The material cannot be folded or the uninsulated wires will touch one another and short.
The piece is from the Organic Electric series. It can be placed on a surface (often with the power wires penetrating the surface to remain invisible) or hung as a chandelier. Sculptures are made to order and can be produced at varying sizes. They can be dimmed with a standard low-voltage dimmer and come with a brushed nickel ceiling canopy.