Herma / Reykjavík / 2025I was invited to design and create the trophy for Gulleggið (the Golden Egg) an innovation competition organised by KLAK – Icelandic Startups.
The project began during quarantine,
with only two weeks to turn an idea into an object.
With limited access to materials, tools, and the outside world,
I began with what was already within reach.
Rather than seeing these limitations as something to overcome,
I let them become part of the design.
The egg took shape through a delicate wire structure,
wrapped in layers of translucent nylon.
But the object was never intended to have one fixed appearance.
Light became part of the sculpture.
I wanted the Golden Egg to feel less like a trophy
and more like a small changing landscape,
an object that reveals itself differently
depending on how it is encountered.
The egg is not only something to look at.
It is something to look around, through, and into.
Light does not simply illuminate it.
It completes it.
Depending on where it enters the space,
the egg reveals something different.
At one moment, its layered shell becomes visible,
soft and almost weightless.
At another, the nylon disappears
and the wire structure emerges from within.
The sharp ends of the wires meet and overlap,
gently dancing inside the translucent surface
sometimes hidden,
sometimes brought into focus by the light.
The surrounding space becomes part of the object.
Nothing about the egg is entirely still.
Its appearance shifts with the position of the viewer,
the direction of the light,
and the atmosphere around it.
