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Static electricity refers to the build-up of electric charge on the surface of objects. The static charges remain on an object until they either bleed off to ground or are quickly neutralized by a discharge. Static electricity can be with current (or dynamic) electricity, which can be delivered through wires as a power source.[1] Although charge exchange can happen whenever any two surfaces come into contact and separate, a static charge only remains when at least one of the surfaces has a high resistance to electrical flow (an electrical insulator). The effects of static electricity are familiar to most people because people can feel, hear, and even see the spark as the excess charge is neutralized when brought close to a large electrical conductor (for example, a path to ground), or a region with an excess charge of the opposite polarity (positive or negative). The familiar phenomenon of a static 'shock' is caused by the neutralization of charge.
When I was a kid, I wanted to live in a rundown, haunted mansion filled with mummies and bones and the closest thing to this was the Carnegie Museum. I love the building almost more than the exhibits it holds. Tiny doors in taxidermy hall that I believed were for elves, or made just for me. I wanted to sleep in the igloo diorama, bury my face in sealskin. The museum reminds me of Friday library nights with my mother, where every three weeks she’d take my sister and me to the adjoining library branch so we could borrow books. I loved reading in the stacks in the winter evenings, inhaling musty book scent as I flipped through "The Three Investigators" or "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." So this is about a good memory of my mother. About the childhood want to live in a museum, or losing myself in fiction when I don’t want to deal with reality. It’s about how the world moves around my family and me as we are left grieving together, and most days, alone.
4 September 2022 - 13:35:03: Static Scrutineering 1
Photo credit: Jorrit Lousberg/Light at Work Photography
I love that everywhere he goes right now his tail hairs stand at attention. He crackles while he walks too. So funny.
Static display at PIA Planitarium Lahore, Pakistan
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A one-off bookwork featuring audio cassette. The book is a series of photographs made by projecting small pieces of paper ephemera onto photographic paper. The pages are the original photographic images on glossy photo paper. The audio cassette contains a unique short soundwork, ‘Static’. The cassette is housed in a hinged metal construction created specially for the book by Susan Heath.
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If you've ever stood under one of these massive things, you might have felt the electric charge running between the lines. Sometimes it makes my hair stand on end. You should feel like this at least once a day. âš¡âš¡âš¡