Series of A4 graphite rubbings of a Lichtenberg Figure created using high voltage electricity channelled through a circuit built by an electrical engineer specialising in high voltage. The work is a stage of an investigation into the landscape and printmaking. The experimental physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) discovered the branching discharge patterns on dielectrics, now named Lichtenberg Figures. Lightning is a 3D Lichtenberg Figure. Through his dielectrical experiments he also discovered the basic principle of modern xerography copy machine technology. He also proposed the standardisation of paper sizes which are now used almost globally and of which A4 is the most common size used. Conceptually, this work will be offered as an NFT on the OpenSeas platform as part of the energy circuit embedded in the artwork. The carbon in the original tool and its fractal burning transitions and multiplies in the energy required to position its digital minting on a blockchain.

The physical prints will be exhibited until the point they are purchased as NFT’s, after which they will be destroyed by fire and exist only as documentation and NFT.

The development of this work has been made possible via a working grant from the Ministerium für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (MWK)