Vanishing Spirits – The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch by Ernie Button

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Vanishing Spirits – The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch by Ernie Button via colossal.

The idea for this project occurred while putting a used Scotch glass into the dishwasher. I noted a film on the bottom of a glass and when I inspected closer, I noted these fine, lacey lines filling the bottom. What I found through some experimentation is that these patterns and images that you see can be created with the small amount of Single-Malt Scotch left in a glass after most of it has been consumed. The alcohol dries and leaves the sediment in various patterns. It’s a little like snowflakes in that every time the Scotch dries, the glass yields different patterns and results. I have used different color lights to add ‘life’ to the bottom of the glass, creating the illusion of landscape, terrestrial or extraterrestrial.

We want to visit planet scotch.

Filed under: art — by adafruit, posted November 18, 2012 at 12:00 am


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3 Comments

  1. a fish eyed view of the surf !

    Comment by pmetro — November 18, 2012 @ 12:53 am

  2. Beats reading tea-leaves… :-)

    Comment by WestfW — November 18, 2012 @ 4:51 am

  3. I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly

    Comment by CongoJoe — November 18, 2012 @ 4:10 pm

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