Electric Painting: Petite Cascade
Electric Painting: Petite Cascade
The Cascade is a borrowed term from Bonsai design alluding to this form’s graceful descent through the wood. The forms are fractals created by electricity expressing it’s individual and unique pathway in each piece. These fractals are called Lichtenberg Forms and it takes a skilled ‘electric painter’, such as Robert West, to generate these interesting works of art.
Robert West is a career electrician and talented Northwest Artist. Each piece is created one at a time and will never be replicated due to its organic nature. To generate a Lichtenberg Form, between 3000-10000 volts of electricity course through prepared wood leaving the fractal pattern of that electricity burned permanently into the wood. This art piece is ready to hang with ‘sleigh style’ riser beams on the back that hold the piece off of the wall and is wire slung for either vertical direction as well as being available for horizontal hanging. This piece’s dimensions are roughly: 10” x 5 1/4” x 1/2” with a 3/4” riser on the back lifting the piece 1 1/4” from the wall. The piece ‘floats’ when hung as is or a frame may be purchased as the 1/2” size is one standard for frame moldings, your artistic choice!