Since installing on 21/2/2023, the work is beginning to evolve with visible electrochemical reactions taking place between the three rings of aluminium, copper and iron on the filter paper cones in the three vessels of acidic, neutral and alkaline salt solutions:

The prototypes are now sprouting coral like formations, around three weeks after inception. In another two weeks, hopefully these crystalline formations will also emerge from the cones in ‘As Above; So Below’.

Installed at Mining Exchange Studios, Redruth, 21st February 2023.

“As above so below” or “Les Fleurs du mal” (title suggested by Dr. Peter Morse).

Three vintage glass bowls containing structures made from filter papers, each with a central conic form capped with three metal rings of iron, copper and aluminium, resting in three salt solutions of acidic, neutral and alkine, coloured by natural red cabbage juice indicator. Each underlit by a LED spotlight programmed to slowly change in complementary colours.

A work that visually changes moment by moment and over many weeks as electrochemical reactions occur and crystalline structures emerge.

Prototype reaction: acidic solution indicator red/purple, copper and aluminium tape.

The work will be installed next week, more photographs to follow.