Video: Lightning strike as a gift. Creative sculptures by Bert Hickman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Looking for an unusual New Year gift? How about gifting a friend or coworker … a thunderbolt? Do you not believe that this is possible? Look at the sculptures by Bert Hickman and see that for a creative person the word “impossible” simply does not exist.
The sculptures from the Captured Lightning series are transparent acrylic figures, inside which there is a branched pattern similar to that left by a lightning strike. Of course, to create such sculptures, the author does not expect a real thunderstorm. Everything happens in his laboratory, where conditions are created as close as possible to natural ones. Bert Hickman loads a large amount of electrons into the acrylic block while grounding the edge of the block. An electrical discharge is then carried out, and the released electrons form a beautiful pattern within the transparent figure.
The creation of such sculptures is based on the figures of Lichtenberg - these are the figures that are obtained as a result of high-voltage discharges. Such figures are found in the fields from lightning strikes, on the human body from electric shock … These patterns, according to Hickman, are very beautiful, but they are quite rare in nature. Therefore, the author decided to try to reproduce the conditions from the origin in the laboratory and to be able to create Lichtenberg figures on his own.
Some of Bert Hickman's sculptures are illuminated with white or colored LEDs, making the lightning trail even more beautiful and mysterious. Like snowflakes, Lichtenberg's figures are unique - no matter how often the author repeats his experiment, the result will always be different.
Any of the sculptures you like can be ordered on Hickman's website. The price ranges from $ 23 to $ 275 depending on the size of the figure. As you can see, a lightning strike is not that expensive.
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