Anodised aluminium, silicon rubber cord, wax work figure, feathers/aluminium, concrete
Lucifer: H 100 cm; wings: H 300 cm each; towers: 400 x 16.83 cm each
in 1889 a man called John Feeks was mending a electric cable in Broadway when he accidentally touched the wrong cable, this give him an almighty shock causing him to fall into a web of high voltage wires , instantly cooking him in front of the public underneath . at the same time Thomas Edison was planning on building the electric chair. Edison was the great inventor of DC power and used the chair against his rival, Westinghouse, who at the time was more successful with his AC electricity. Edison used Westinghouse AC to power the electric chair, he would demonstrate the chair on dogs and elephants in front of the public to push them away from this electricity type used for such brutal acts therefore purchasing and using Edison's supply of DC power. this chair was up and running within three months. it took seven years to place cables underground. the sculpture shows how an innocent man died an awful death in which the situation is over powered by ideas of using the electric chair as a way of killing and a way of making money.
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