A West Australian country doctor who has won a worldwide cult following online for his spectacular displays of electrifying exhibitionism has come up with another feat of high voltage chutzpah.
The project, which Dr Peter Terren calls the Modern Thinker, involves passing about 200,000 volts of electricity over his body, a routine that transforms him into a human sparkler for all of 15 seconds.
Terren explained in a short note that” he wanted to convey the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives”.
It shows the amateur physicist – striking a pose imitating Rodin’s The Thinker statue – channelling an arc of electrical current that leaps down from the crackling semi-circle of sparks suspended over his head.
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