Inspired by an experiment at school, a photographer from Bangor, Maine, has developed a new project called “Back to Light“. He put electrodes inside of the fruit in order to make self-powered lights that light up his photographs.
He writes on his website: “To understand the world and to profit from it one must interact with it, one must experiment”.
“My practice as an artist combines a scientific curiosity with a constructive approach to making pictures”.
“I utilise everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate experiences of wonder”.
Caleb Charland transformed real fruit into electrochemical cells, arranging them artistically and shoots them using a long exposure.
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| Juice to make juice: Caleb Charland uses nails hidden inside the fruit, such as limes (pictured) which are connected with copper to make batteries, inspired by the potato classroom experiment |
The light produced is sufficient to provide pictures that are made in a dark room.
The experiment is simple and inspired by those made by students at the school, with potatoes in physics classes. A galvanized nail is introduced in a part of the fruit, and on the other side a copper wire, thereby generating an electric current, but a rather weak one.
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| Shining example: A small electrical current is generated by inserting a galvanized nail into one side of the fruit and a copper wire in the other side. These apples have been connected to make a circuit capable of powering a small light |
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