Pachinko
This sculpture is built from a vintage Pachinko machine, modified and reimagined as a wall-mounted light sculpture. A small mechanical control panel—added at the top—supports a row of illuminated ping pong balls that glow in soft, shifting colors. More ping pong balls are embedded in the face of the Pachinko machine, replacing the original game elements with warm points of light.
The sculpture is lit from within using LEDs, diffused through shaped wooden inserts that give the surface a quiet, ambient glow. Two brass trumpet pistons are embedded in the lower section, introducing a musical reference and a sense of mechanical precision. Carved wooden letters appear along the bottom and side—within that sequence, the artist’s name, SDKOGAN, is embedded like a signature hidden in plain sight.
While the work retains the structure of a game, its function has shifted. It becomes a kind of coded display—blending light, language, and found materials into something both playful and intentionally constructed.
