About the Artist

Random Brass is a one-of-a-kind collection by artist Sean Day, creating fully functional lamp sculptures from repurposed lamp parts — a medium entirely his own.

Every piece is built primarily from antique and vintage lamp components — brass fittings, sockets, stems, hardware — sourced from broken-down lamps and old chandeliers at Hippo Hardware, from boxes of parts found in trailers behind 7-Elevens, and from anywhere else parts with character can be found. The base is always reclaimed wood, hand-carved by Sean himself.

The signature style — the one that started Random Brass and still defines the catalog — is lamp parts only. Nothing welded, nothing bent, nothing soldered. Every joint fits by geometry alone, which makes the work significantly harder and is a big part of why it looks the way it does. The constraint is the craft.

But Sean is an artist, not a rule-follower. When a piece calls for something the signature style can't deliver — a slight bend, a sculpted form, an epoxied layer, a finish technique that pushes brass into the territory of bronze — he takes the piece where it needs to go. The signature style is the foundation. It isn't a cage.

The result is art that lives at the intersection of industrial craft, organic form, and functional design. Every piece is a fully functional lamp. Every piece is one of a kind. And every piece is the only one Sean will ever make of itself — when the creative energy on an idea runs its course, he moves on. There's no second run. No "by popular demand." The collection is exactly as long as his curiosity made it.

Sean Day

Sean Day doesn't fish. He doesn't ride a motorcycle. He doesn't mountain bike. He's never spent a weekend with a fly rod or built a chopper or owned a Star Wars collection. But he's made fully functional lamp sculptures of every one — and they sit in homes and bars across the Pacific Northwest because someone saw a piece and wanted to take it home.

That's the thing about Sean. He doesn't make art about his own hobbies. He makes art about other people's. He drifts in and out of pop culture, picks up the threads of whatever's caught his attention, and uses his hands and his materials to bring those worlds to life. He explores. He builds. He lets it go. Then he picks up something else.

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One piece at a time.

Sean doesn't multitask. When an idea takes hold, it takes hold completely. He has to get it out of his head before he can think about anything else — no parallel projects, no juggling, no half-finished work on the bench while he chases something new. He focuses on one piece until it's done, puts everything into it, and only then moves on to whatever's next.

It's not a strategy. It's just how his brain works. And it's a big part of why every Random Brass piece has the level of attention it does.

Ask Sean what his favorite piece is and you'll get the same answer every time: the next one.