Electric Trees.

With these images I aimed to visualise electricity. Electricity is ubiquitous; it is around us all the time. Yet we never see it.

Our lives would be very different without electricity:

No electronic devices, no computers, no domestic appliances, no television, no illumination in our homes, no recorded music, no air conditioning. The list goes on.

So, what does electricity look like? One way of visualising it is through creating small-scale lightning, similar to the huge discharges that occur naturally in the sky when weather storms develop.

With a bit of DIY and capitalising on the precious legacy that the great Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla left us, I built a small ‘lightening generator’. I was then able to visualise and capture one of the manifestations of electricity.

The results are striking ‘electric trees’. As electricity dissipates through air, it forms tree-like structures with sparks reaching out like branches.

Ultimately, this is a tribute to electricity, which became such a fundamental component of our civilisation.