Thomas Egoumenides

Lighting · Tunisia

Discipline

Lighting · Heat-worked plastic

Studio

Tunisia

Edition

ERG

Designer’s statement

MIRAJ is a project about material, light, and effort. It began with the trunk of a palm tree, found by chance in a workshop near Bhar Lazrag: raw, immense, brought from the southern deserts by a carpenter friend. Days later, in a plastic film factory in Mghrira, a large discarded roll of stretch film appeared. The material: low-density polyethylene, layered, transparent, heat-charged — filled with tension, air, and memory. Thousands of plastic layers echo the palm's fibrous core. MIRAJ means 'ascension' in Arabic — spiritual, but also optical. What rises is not perfection, but the rejected. A material allowed to speak its past and suggest its future.

Collections

ERG

Erg is a meditation on vastness, solitude, and the suspended beauty of the desert. Drawn from the silence of endless dunes and the shifting poetry of sand, the collection evokes a landscape where time softens and boundaries dissolve. Here, the desert is a living expanse where light, texture, and stillness compose a language of their own. ERG speaks to those who find meaning in movement, in silence, in the raw honesty of nature untouched. Through material, form, and atmosphere, the collection becomes an invitation to rediscover a sense of wonder within the infinite.

Selected Works

Agham

Miraj

Totem