
Fabric and wire light sculpture by Desirae Hepp

Image via biCyCle Store Paris on tumblr

This is a Lamp, 2001, by Tobias Wong

Harry Potter stag patronus embroidery by Kjersti Faret

che fare?, 1968, by Mario Merz, via Izmo

Image via ffffound

One Hundred Live and Die, 1984, by Bruce Nauman, via art21

Attack of the Grackle Cloud, via AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker's photostream on Flickr

Burnt Offerings, 2011, by Stev'nn Hall

From the Svalbard series by Kevin Cooley

Stack of Plates (lamp) by Annie Tung and Brad Turner. Via Designlines' photostream on Flickr

Aurora Borealis, 1861, by Frederic Edwin Church, via Hundred Million Light Years

Kota (cottage), via mattisj's photostream on Flickr

Detail from Piscina pública sobre fondo de Campo de Cebada / Public swimming pool on a background of a field of barley by luzinterruptus

Bioluminescent Mushrooms by Zong Ye Quek, via Digital Photographer

Orange, 2007, by Barry Underwood

Bioluminescent blackdragon fish (Melanostomias bartonbeani) via NOVA on PBS

Cloud (H2O) by Spencer Finch, via Art Tattler

Image via tosspotmemoires on tumblr

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–6, by John Singer Sargent

A Palestinian Muslim man decorates an alley of Jerusalem's old city with festive lights in preparation for Ramadan on Tuesday, Aug. 10 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen). Via The Big Picture

Spencer Finch, Moonlight (Venice, March 10, 2009), 2009. Filters and tape, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. Photo: Wolfgang Träger. Via Art Tattler

64 Fireflies, via tinkerlog's photostream on Flickr

Dream, 2008, by Cai Guo-Qiang. Photo by Tatsumi Masatoshi, courtesy Cai Studio.

Anemona (visually unsteady lamp), by Igor Pinigin on Behance

Anemona (visually unsteady lamp), by Igor Pinigin on Behance

Image via ffffound

Hierbas de botica / Pharmacy herbs by luzinterruptus

Feux follets near Paris. Artist unknown. Source: Flammarion, L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888, p.749). Via The Earth's Anomalous Lightforms

A parasitic gesture, 2011, by Rune Guneriussen, via Phaidon

From the Light Blub series, 2009, by Pieke Bergmans

Light, installation at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, 2012, by Bruce Munro. Via My Modern Met

nord, detail, by Mario Merz, via pietroizzo's photostream on Flickr

Detail of layered polywood at LZF Studio, Valencia, Spain. Image © designboom

Image provenance unknown.

Glow Flowers, via Passie13(Ines van Megen)'s photostream on Flickr

The crescent moon is seen near mosques in old Cairo on the fifth day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on August 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih). Via The Big Picture

Cocoon, Cragsmoor, NY, by Kate Browne

Image from the Home From Home exhibition, 2010, by JAMESPLUMB

Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009, by Yayoi Kusama. Via Gagosian Gallery

From the Light lab, text I – XII project, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2006 – 08, by Olafur Eliasson

From the Light lab, text I – XII project, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2006 – 08, by Olafur Eliasson

Guijarros wall lights by Marivi Calvi. Image © designboom

Detail from Piscina pública sobre fondo de Campo de Cebada / Public swimming pool on a background of a field of barley by luzinterruptus

109 Lighting Books, detail, 2009, by Airan Kang. Via Bruce Wolkowitz Gallery

The comet Hale-Bopp in the spring of 1997 as seen from Finland, photographed by Pekka Parviainen. Via The World at Night

A new proposal, 2007, by Pernilla Jansson
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Detail from the site-specific installation Obon, featuring 1,000 floating luminous leaves, Puerto Rico, by Miya Ando. Via Spoon & Tamago
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Night view of the site-specific installation Obon, featuring 1,000 floating luminous leaves, Puerto Rico, by Miya Ando. Via Spoon & Tamago

Mailbox, 2008, by Stev'nn Hall

Fireflies, Ontario, one hour of firefly activity near the home of photographer Steve Irvine. Via National Geographic