I was chatting with an artist friend last week about an artwork we have long admired- Francois Morellet's Deconstructed Circle- where the artist suspends neon arches that would make a circle together. It appears that the tubes are hanging from their electrode wires- a big electrical no no that seems to be working for him.
I have a bunch of 10 foot straight neon tubes collecting dust across the warehouse, and a big fancy test transformer, so I gave it a go. Felt wrong in every way to suspend those tubes like that... but seems to work just fine (they aren't heavy).
My apprentice came by and saw my crazy test before she finished welding up her first bamboo stick using some of my fancy scraps- one of the fanciest beginner bamboo sticks I have ever seen. I walked her through bombarding it too (its rare I get to teach that). Apprentice Claire is learning to bend the rules like the best of them :)
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