When we can’t think what to do with something too good to throw away, we make a lamp out of it. Bronzed baby shoes, driftwood, old Portuguese wine bottles — all are embryonic lamps. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher, wanted us to look at the underlying nature of common things, to discover their hidden truths, in short, to deconstruct them. Turning broken hockey sticks into a lamp brings out their cultural and societal essence: the wood, the fabrication, the game, the conflict, and their demise.
This hockey stick lamp isn’t just a lamp, it’s a Statement, and making it gives those hockey sticks their redemption. You may choose any variant: floor lamp, table lamp, or wall lamp. Glue the shafts at the corners so the blades form a radiating pattern of 90°. This will leave a nice channel for the electrical cord. In fact, by strange coincidence, some of the newer sticks already have channels in them. You can buy the fittings at the top for the bulb and shade at a hardware store.
The lamp shade is another project entirely, but in the spirit of this artwork, try to deconstruct a shade. You can of course yield to the darker side and create a little assemblage of hockey paraphernalia, but fight the urge, unless of course the lamp is a gift for a sentimental hockey parent. In that case, give it the works.