In 1991
KISC, Inc. of Osaka, Japan commissioned Lakich to create a sculpture that
would demonstrate their newly developed MultiNeon transformer. The transformer
supplies varying electrical currents to tubes pumped with a combination of
neon and argon gases. The color of light emitted by each tube changes from
the red end of the spectrum to the blue end, an effect never seen before the
invention of the MultiNeon transformer.
Lakich rendered Van Gogh’s self-portrait in
different colored metals and created a painter's palette of neon tubes which
changed color making the bold graphic statement of the transformer's artistic
possibilities. The backglow aura of blue changed as well, becoming a reddish
glow.
