An old grain silo stands on the harbour in Stubbekøbing. In Carina Randløv’s documentary The Silo and Us, we meet people who want to give the building a future as a place for art. The film also makes room for disagreement: what should we preserve, what should we change, and who is art really for?

My idea began with something simpler: I wanted to build the silo as a lamp. Mainly because it seemed like a fun challenge. What happens when something so heavy and solid is given a body of thin bamboo rods and paper?

I built the lamp using 3 mm bamboo rods, washi paper and small 3D-printed joints. Concrete has become a light framework, and light seeps through the paper. A building that once held grain is reimagined as a vessel for light.

In that sense, the lamp is a small tribute to the desire to try something out — both my own at the workbench and the impulse that leads people to see a new meeting place in an old silo. The lamp is on display at Theilgaards Galleri in Stubbekøbing.