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Creating art by blasting plastic with a particle accelerator
Todd Johnson doesn’t make art like you or I. He doesn’t dab his fingers in fingerpaint and make stupid pictures of the family dog. No sir… he takes pieces of plastic, puts them in a particle accelerator and blasts them with electrons. That’s making art out of SCIENCE.
To make his Shockfossils, Johnson rents time at his local particle accelerator, which is apparently a thing you can do. Next, he puts the slabs through the accelerator where they become charged with some several million volts of electricity, the electrons careening into the acrylic slabs where they become trapped. Afterwards, the slabs can be pierced by any manner of pointy device, at which point the electrons beat feet, leaving scorched paths behind them in beautiful, complex fractal patterns.
It isn’t just slabs though, Johnson has found a number of ways to mix it up. The process works just as well on cubes, or on cylinders, so long as they’re being rotated when they’re charged. And when it comes to slabs, Johnson can coax the electrons into specific shapes through the use of lead stencils. Finally, there’s some post-production work to be done by mounting the Shockfossils and edge-lighting them with LEDs, giving each piece a color, or in some cases, more than one.
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