S T A R T / H E R E

Okay so today I decided to create this   N E O N  D I A R Y  where I can start recording my day to day experiences of working with neon, glass and sculpture. I'm from the UK, and studying an MFA(Photography) in the US, but taking most of my classes in areas I've not yet had the opportunity to explore.

Since beginning the neon class I take at school I've become almost overwhelmed with the wealth of possibilities working in sculpture could open up to me. I get a lot of pleasure in building something with my hands, I enjoy the the challenges and problem solving and that amazing feeling when you start trying to do something new, that in everything you do you learn something.

I feel excited about the future, its kind of like falling in love. 
Unfortunately, like in new love, I've become a dazed fool and can't think or talk about anything else.

Examples of  tube colors seen in Grahame's Neon, Mesa.

The glass tubes are filled with either neon or argon and mercury. Neon alone in clear glass is red in color,  all other colors are made possible by coating the inside of the tubes with phosphor, using argon gas and mercury to excite the phosphor. There are now over 150 different shades available and  purple tubes are supposed to be most expensive.

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