This study describes the method to deign and fabricate lighting pressed flower statue(LPFS) applicable to the indoor and outdoor interior, which use both of onion pressed flower and Electro-Luminescence(EL) sheet. The major contents of the study are 1...
This study describes the method to deign and fabricate lighting pressed flower statue(LPFS) applicable to the indoor and outdoor interior, which use both of onion pressed flower and Electro-Luminescence(EL) sheet. The major contents of the study are 1) the method of dyeing of onion and making a onion pressed flower, 2) the practical application of the onion pressed flower to fabrication of various pressed flower statue utilizing EL sheet, such as a flat type, a cylinder type, and a curved type, etc. The onion has natural characteristics as follows, in the point of pressed flower material, 1) easiness of acquiring compared to other flowers, 2) beautiful and detailed inner structure that allows various art design and implementation when it is dyed with natural dye materials. The lighting source of EL sheet is consuming low power but illuminating bright light, so as to be proper not to affect the life of the flower color, which is a characteristic property of the EL sheet as a state-of-art material for pressed flower statue using light. Combining the natural characteristics of a onion and a EL sheet, the transparent light through the onion inner structure gives a beautiful and mysterious atmosphere, hence a high valued pressed flower statue using light is available. The implemented statues of onion pressed flower with light are used as a light decoration or a pressed flower decoration. In this study, we fabricated various types of statue shaped of flat panel, cylinder, and curved type, and investigated the value of the statue as a inner decoration and interiors.