Paul Malone : Blue Z-Pinch

'Blue Z-Pinch'

Installation with 500 blue plastic drinking straws
Illuminated with blue light.
2.5 high x 2 x 2 mtrs

Parma 'Objects / Rooms' Exhibition. 2008

This is a further example of my occasional series of 'cosmological conceits'. This piece is composed of about 500 blue plastic drinking straws locked end to end and 'pinched' onto the wall. The top is allowed to arch out from the wall and the bottom hangs loosely with the straw lines crossing over.

This piece emulates the pathways of an electrical discharge in Space.

See the installation of this artwork in the documentary 'Objects / Rooms' on the A2 Arts TV Channel