Electric Trees. (14 images)

With this project I aimed at visualising electricity. We live with electricity being ubiquitous around us and, yet, we never see it.

Our lives would be very different without electricity: no electronic devices, no computers, no white goods, no TV, no illumination in our homes, no recorded music, no air conditioning, and the list goes on.

So, what does electricity look like? One way of visualising it is through creating small-scale lightening, similar to the ones...
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With this project I aimed at visualising electricity. We live with electricity being ubiquitous around us and, yet, we never see it.

Our lives would be very different without electricity: no electronic devices, no computers, no white goods, no TV, no illumination in our homes, no recorded music, no air conditioning, and the list goes on.

So, what does electricity look like? One way of visualising it is through creating small-scale lightening, similar to the ones that occur naturally in the sky when whether storms develop.

With a bit of DIY and leveraging the precious legacy that Nicola Tesla left us, I built a small “lightening generator”. With that done, I was able to then visualise and capture one of the manifestations of electricity.

The results are striking “electric trees”, as electricity dissipates through air forming tree-like structures, with various branches reaching out through the air.

Ultimately, this is a tribute to electricity, which became such a fundamental component of our civilisation.
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