Site Light is inspired by the unofficial communication networks that unfold across New York City’s public surfaces — from lampposts, telephone poles, and scaffolding, to the green plywood walls surrounding construction sites.
These surfaces host everyday exchanges: concert flyers, tutoring offers, lost pet notices, and handwritten services layered over time. Taped, stapled, and pasted in accumulation, these layers transform standardized, industrial structures into local sites of connection — a shared system of invitation, plea, commerce, and care. Rather than reproducing these graphics directly, Site Light translates their visual language into texture, form, and pattern. Drawing from stained glass and quilting as contemporary craft practices, fragments are cut, layered, and assembled into a luminous composition. Wood panels and a concrete base ground the piece materially, referencing the built environment that supports these postings. Illuminated from within, the object reveals shifting depth as edges glow and layered surfaces come into view.
Danielle Begnaud is the founder of benyo studio, where her work focuses on sparking imagination, creativity, and joyful resilience. Grounded in her anthropological background, Danielle places the human experience at the center of her design and research practice.
Matte Berit Nyberg is a maker and ceramicist based in Brooklyn, whose work examines the informal systems that shape everyday life. Through material-driven practice, she translates cultural observation into objects that reflect patterns of use, exchange, and shared experience.