RELUXOED

project : RE-LUXOED
type : Concept Light Prototype
location : Los Angeles, CA
team : Luis Quinones – Jon Stahl – David Stamatis

Reluxoed – A Study in Digital Skin and Visual Decay 

Reluxoed explores the tension between visual seduction and material breakdown—a study in synthetic surfaces, digital reflections, and fragmented identity. Part fashion prosthetic, part visual hallucination, the project emerges as a response to how we curate, distort, and fragment bodies in the age of hyper-representation. Each form is draped, distorted, or partially occluded, playing with the idea of luxury as both fetish and decay. There is beauty here, but it is ruptured—surfaces wrinkle, stretch, and fracture under digital pressure. Reflections are imperfect. Textures slide between soft, alien, and artificial. The garments read like memory leaks: elegant but unstable, as if the system that rendered them was slowly eroding its own structure.

The lighting and material choices evoke chrome, latex, and holographic mesh—materials that don’t belong to a specific time, but to a future where image and interface have merged. There is no clear function, only presence. Reluxoed is not a fashion collection, not a product study—it’s a visual condition, an experimental state. A slow collapse of the rendered body into a purely aesthetic signal.

System Behavior and Use Cycle

Reluxoed operates in two distinct states: Charge Mode (day) and Discharge Mode (night)—mirroring the behavior of diurnal organisms.

1. Charge Mode – Daytime Behavior
During the day, the lamp is mounted to any sunlit window using its custom silicone suction interface. Embedded thin-film solar sheets within the pads absorb ambient light and charge an array of microbatteries hidden within the body of the fixture.
A boost converter network conditions the energy, allowing it to power the OLED lighting system later with increased efficiency and control. While inactive, the lamp remains in a folded, compact configuration—quietly gathering energy like a dormant flower.

2. Discharge Mode – Nighttime Behavior
At night, the user removes the lamp from the window and attaches it to any surface: a desk, wall, or monitor back.
A gentle press on the OLED array activates the system. An internal mechanism—spring-loaded and gas-strut actuated—unfurls the armature, transforming the lamp into its open lighting configuration.

As the light turns on, a photometric sensor embedded in the array reads ambient conditions and dynamically adjusts the brightness to extend battery life while maintaining optimal light quality.