Sapphire Whiskers 2013

This series is inspired by an article found in the February 1965 edition of Scientific American magazine. In it there is an article about Sapphire Whiskers grown at the General Electric Space Sciences Laboratory with images shown in magnification. Whisker growth occurs as molten aluminum vaporizes and oxidizes. The process under magnification is quite beautiful!

Sapphire Whiskers, Painted in Germany on unstretched canvas with acrylics and stretched and finished in my Palmdale studio for the January Juried show at MOAH.

Sapphire Whiskers (finalized), Painted in Germany on unstretched canvas with acrylics and stretched and finished in my Palmdale studio for the January Juried show at MOAH.