"A daredevil inventor has created a shocking new image of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ – by shooting 500,000 volts of electricity down his body as he sat in the pose. (Pics)
Using a home-built Tesla coil pieced together from junk and bits from hardware stores, Peter Terren risked his life to make the electrifying image. He was also only protected from painful death by electrocution by a layer of cheap builders’ foil.
Terren, from Bunbury, Western Australia,said: ‘I wanted to convey the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives. So much is happening and demanding our attention that it is difficult to “think”.
‘I decided upon a real life posture like the thinker with a lot of electrical activity around me with sparks onto my body.’
"The electricity fired from the Tesla rod, which is passed over him in a semi-circle, can then pass down the foil suit and safely out to the earth through his foot."
I found this really quite amazing - partly the fact that electricity is going through his body and not killing him while he is "thinking"; but also the aesthetics of the electricity. The way it moves through space is fascinating and beautiful, while also being terrifying and unpredictable.
http://www.impactlab.net/2009/04/23/peter-terren-recreates-rodins-the-thinker-with-electricity/
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