McLEISH PETER, The Historic Search for the Red Sprites: Art
Meets Science in Lightning's Angels, Leonardo, Vol. 38, No.
2, 2005, pp. 109-113
Sprites are fleeting, luminous shapes that shoot into the
upper
atmosphere during large thunderstorms as lightning
simultaneously
reaches down to Earth. For at least a century, scientists
have attempted
to confirm and explain the existence of sprites with
visual images and
data. The author's series Lightning's Angels supplements the
documentation of sprites by exploring the properties of
this natural
phenomenon through digitally enhanced oil portraits set to
music and
displayed in a large-scale multimedia format, such as at a
planetarium.
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