HEAD STUDY: WILLIAM BLAKE 2001-05

The neon and salt studies are made up from three dimensional glass neon tube armatures which have a salt crystalline structure grown over the top forming a white body mass. Light pulsates from within this structure. In the case of the heart it beats from side to side, in the head it beats uniformly through the four tube sections. The light filters out through the body of the salt that encases it, making the body appear to glow with an artificial life from within.
The form’s crystalline structure took two and a half years to grow and took hundreds of hours of rotation to build up the surface. Many of the works did not make it through to completion, as the process was complex and untested. The only survivors of the series are two heads and six hearts forms.