NEON HEARTS

A series of sculptures, that use glass neon tube as 3 dimensional armatures over which, a salt crystalline body is grown. The forms are over sized hearts and heads, that pulsate with light from within the structure. Shinning light through the salt body there is an audible electrical crackle, as the light ramps up and down in intensity. Optically as the light brighten and dims, our brains interpret the pulse of light as a physical expansion and contraction, giving rise the the feeling the work is moving or pulsing.

The physical lifespan of the neon gas within the works is interwoven with how often the work is switched on, this happens because the salt insulates the glass tubes, effectively accelerating the degradation of the glass body that holds the neon gas, the more it is on the shorter its life. Putting the viewer directly in control with how long the art will be ‘alive’. The salt body over the neon glass took a 5 years period to gown.