Hello Lighting Tamers!

I was finishing up the application for the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award, and decided to a do livestream on instagram as worked on it. Unfortunately some of the music I was using got flagged so the video might be blocked. 

Anyways, these slides are just simplified walkthrough on how I resolved this piece, Inspire (Neon Citrus). Trying to create some supportive documents for some of the recent work I've been making and my artistic practice.

Director. Michael Gugger
DOP. Jesse Mazuch
Camera Assistant. Ashton Green
Production Assistant. Nico Serban
Editor. Nicolas Dusollier
Sound & Music. Ethan Houser
Colorist. Delfina Mayer
Neon Bender. Thomas Wendler
Voice. James Turrell
Title Design. Bella Conlan

Hello Lightning Tamers!

​In this Session, I show how and why I chose the phosphors for this piece, as well a my use a DIY glass solder, formulated by Ed Kirshner, and what adjustments and errors I've created and corrected!

-Percy Echols II, Taming Lightning
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Follow along as I walk-through making a plasma light sculpture and the designs choices and decisions I make to it's finished conclusion.

This will cover 3D printing/modeling, and glassblowing, as well as engraving , fire polished glass, coldworking glass , and glass solder aka  Kiln Soldered Glass.

Kiln Soldered Glass: using a low melting glass medium to bond two similar glass materials.

Hello Lightning Tamers!

Here I follow up in the hardware design for this piece and share what I did to prepare the vessel to solder the electrode via coldworking.

coldworking: the collective term for the many techniques and tools used to alter or decorate glass when it's cold (at room temperature).  - Corning Museum of Glass

ex. engraving, cutting, gluing, carving, shaping, and or polishing.

-Percy Echols II, Taming Lightning
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​Follow along as I walk-through making a plasma light sculpture and the designs choices and decisions I make to it's finished conclusion.

This will cover 3D printing/modeling, and glassblowing, as well as engraving , fire polished glass, coldworking glass , and glass solder aka  Kiln Soldered Glass.

Kiln Soldered Glass: using a low melting glass medium to bond two similar glass materials.

Follow along as I walk-through making a plasma light sculpture and the designs choices and decisions I make to it's finished conclusion.

This will cover 3D printing/modeling, and glassblowing, as well as engraving , fire polished glass, coldworking glass , and glass solder aka  Kiln Soldered Glass.

Kiln Soldered Glass: using a low melting glass medium to bond two similar glass materials.

Hello Lightning Tamers!

After finishing my latest plasma sculpture, and listening to those who saw the sneak peeks in my instagram, I thought I'd try to livestream my in-process work. To show how the gap between a close-form to vacuum seal is much smaller than you think. 

In this livestream I go over my decision making, structural considerations, and contributions that made this speedily made sculpture a success.

And the start of another sculpture from Form to vacuum sealable vessel, with drawing and plans towards it's completion.

Thank you for your support,

-Percy Echols II, Taming Lightning