PDF of Strike Notes

found objects, fulgurites, ephemera, radio play-style audio of Herman Melville’s “The Lightning-rod Man,” custom light boxes

I reconfigured dioramas and display cases in an exhibition hall of the long-shuttered Grand Rapids Public Museum, to explore American histories and mythologies of lightning and lightning rods, and how these might relate to our current understanding of electrifying encounters and looming threats.

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