Blue Ion Sheet : Perspex, french enamel, lead splashes, silver powder, fixtures. 75 x 50 x 8 cms : 2007
This is a four layer inclined perspex sandwich. Layer 3 is spotted with ice-blue evaporation rings and layer 2 has large horizontal and oblique lead solder splashes that interact one from another.
Inclined as if flowing water, the piece cascades both in its topmost wave form but also electrically in the gemmated relationships of the inserts on layer 2. The evaporation rings of spirit dye and silver powder are ringed in microscopic arrangements of concentrated blue colour, as is expanding in emulation of a gravitational pseudo-force.
Details below :
Note : In these images the solder splashes appear dark - they are in fact very shiny.
This is due to the need to reduce reflections in the perspex during photography.
