JamesAkers, 2 months ago

Saturday I bent all the letters in all the colors for this collaboration with Alicia Eggert. A little bigger than I remember them, but that is nice.

That turquoise wants to stain so much. I got it way hot and bombarded it about 6 times which seemed to help reduces the size of the stains. I think they didn't bake out the binder from the coating? None of the other colors had the staining.

Oh these colors do go quite well together :)

#neon #letters #sculpture #installation #collaboration

the letters, seen off here on the age in table. Its important that they are all white when they are off- so the installation is as boring and colorless as possible and people dont know what is what color
some staining seen in the turquoise "U". The mercury trap is still on, mercury still inside. I even pumped it upside down in hopes that gravity would pull the loosened up stains to the back of the letter. So strange, I have never really seen this in new glass.