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Photo Credit: Martin Urmson

Henny Burnett

Mercury, - 2011

Elements – Arsenic, Iodine, Oxygen and Mercury.

The pieces in this multimedia installation represent the four elements and their uses in lighting. In 'Mercury' a cupboard is opened to reveal a chemistry lab of fluorescing liquids under ultraviolet mercury lights, from the everyday liquids like tonic water and clothes washing liquid to rhodamine and fluorescein.

162cm x 47cm x 32cm

wood, glass jars, fluorescening liquids, UV lights

£700

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