• Charred wood: very important material for me, there is a redemptive quality to the charring process.

    From TODD MURPHY’s notes annotated by his studio assistant 2017

  • Gold - residue of colliding stars, massive solar explosions, energy is produced but one of the by products is gold *All of these kinds of cosmic energies.

    Todd Murphy’s Notes

  • Salt as a healing properties, preservative, salted meat, salt mines, salacious - salt, Material that takes on many roles, required, found all over the world.

    Todd Murphy

    notes annotated studio assistant 2017

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 I was studying batteries and charring wood. Redemptive, rebirth kind of place. When I started to do the research on batteries, I bought a salt water battery powered robot and it came with a sheet of aluminum, a piece of cotton and charcoal  - carbon.

Element, Carbon, material charcoal - charred wood or an artist 's charcoal stick, the electricity, beyond fascinating. - Todd Murphy, 2017

From Studio Assistant transcription; Todd words on use of materials, 2017

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