“Metusala’s graduation project is only one plot point within the history of his engagement with this material, but it marks the first time he has moved toward making lamps himself. Assembled from templates, instructional diagrams, and Estoplast product catalogues, his lamps are collages: details are extracted and replicated through technological processes like 3D printing, and layered with printed patterns and symbolism drawn from the Soviet period, whose lit outlines now reflect back in different, mutated ways. “ Excerpt from an essay on Ott Metusala by Isabelle Sully