Forged by Lightning

Abstract

Forged by lightning suggests a potential of engineering the wonder of nature. It explores harnessing the powerful and unpredictable force of lightning and strengthening the interactions between human and elemental forces. My lightning forge is capable of harnessing the extremely high voltage power of a strike to physically forge artefacts from different composite sand mixes. The jewellery that is forged brings a close interaction with humans, in aesthetic, spiritual and form of memory. The interventions represent how humans and extreme nature can creatively collaborate in the future and trigger dreams of the utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most spectacular and yet dangerous energy resource - lightning.