Light Drawings, 2013
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Light Drawings use electroluminescent wire, a small 2-3mm thick light emitting flexible cord. The el-wire is typically clear and nearly invisible in daylight but produces a strong glow in the dark. I began this work while on a residency in Switzerland (2013). At them time I was working on a project involving the Larger Hadron Collider at CERN and talking to physics about light and how colliding particles are visualized.