'Anode Unit 01-2006'
Perspex, lead solder, french enamel,
silver powder, fixtures.
25 x 25 x 8 cms : 2006
Perspex, lead solder, french enamel,
silver powder, fixtures.
25 x 25 x 8 cms : 2006
A four layer perspex sandwich with negative curved outline. Layer 3 contains evaporation rings of spirit dye with dissolved silver powder. On layer 2 there is an arrangement of four lead splashes in an energetic and interactive arrangement.
The left hand splash is fissioning, having ejected the other 3, and is gemmating a further disk which it part hides. Electric filaments and metallic streamers point along the trails of ejection in this cosmological nativity scene.
This unit recalls the retinal impact of photons of light during an astronomical observation. The whole is experienced again as a machined artifact.
Detail below :
Note : In these images the solder splashes appear dark - they are in fact very shiny.
This is due to the need to reduce reflections in the perspex during photography.
