Inspired by: Rothschild lamp, Andrea Briosco, called Riccio, Italian, ca. 1510–20, from The Met's open archive. Link to Original Art: The Met: Rothschild lamp

What I made: I turned the Rothschild lamp into a gigantic mythical ship.

What caught my attention was that the original lamp already has the form of an ancient galley, with ornate bronze details, curling forms, figures, creatures, and a small human figure at its center. Instead of simply changing the lamp into a larger version of itself, I imagined what it might look like if the object actually became a full-scale vessel.

I kept the visual language of the original piece and expanded it into the architecture of the ship, turning its decorative forms into the hull, decks, creatures, structures, and details of a fantastical world.

How I made it: I downloaded the original artwork from The Met's open archive and imported the image into FLORA. I connected the image to a text prompt node, then connected both the image and prompt to the video node and used the Seedance 2.5 model to generate the animation.

I kept the workflow intentionally simple because this was my first time using FLORA. I was also trying not to burn through all my credits before I had something worth submitting, which is a surprisingly important consideration when you're learning a new creative tool.

Why I made this: The original lamp already sits somewhere between an everyday object, sculpture, and imaginary ship. That made me wonder: what if it wasn't a lamp pretending to be a ship anymore? What if it actually became one?

So I imagined the object at a completely different scale, turning a Renaissance bronze lamp into a living, enormous vessel that could carry people through a mythical world.

I wanted the final piece to feel like something that could have existed in the imagination of the original artist, but at a scale they could never have physically built.

Built with FLORA for the #FLORAMuseum challenge.