The Beautiful Dangers of High Voltage Lines
I was just joking in a post a few days ago about the elusive dangers of playgrounds that are located near/under high voltage power lines, and I just stumbled across this link. This art installation is beautiful, stunning and totally frightening all at the same time.
Richard Box, artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, got the idea for Field (2004) 1,301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by low overhead powerlines after a conversation with a friend. He was telling me he used to play with a fluorescent tube under the pylons by his house, says the artist. He said it lit up like a light saber. Box decided to see if he could fill a field with tubes lit by the waste energy emanating from power lines. Box denies that he aimed to draw attention to the potential dangers of power lines, For me, it was just the amazement of taking something that’s invisible and making it visible, he says. ~ StopGeek.com
