Penn chose to work with specialist adhesives company Eurobond Adhesives to develop a bonding method that would be optically clear, very strong and which had complete controllability. Eurobond’s technical team developed a UV light-curing adhesive to bond together the 200 individual crystal glass pieces.
Eurobond technical manager Kevin Henry explained: “Our solution was to use Eurobond’s ‘ultimate’ glass bonding adhesive to ensure the clarity and strength required. Some of the problems that we had to overcome were ensuring that sufficient UV light intensity and the correct wavelength of UV light could penetrate the glass through to the glue line. In addition, we had to find a safe and suitable UV light adhesive curing system that was lightweight and easy to handle around the ever-evolving delicate structure. As UK distributors for German UV equipment manufacturer Dr Honle AG, we found the UV(A)LED hand lamp was ideally suited to the task.”
The first entire skeletal artwork took a year to create and was completed a few days before the country and the world experienced record breaking temperatures directly attributed to climate change caused by humans.
Now complete, the artwork will go on a global tour, starting in Margate, Kent until January 31; tickets can be booked via https://fragilefight.com/.
A promotional video has also been produced.
