Allan McCollum. THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics), 1997. Fused zircon sand. Actual fulgurite produced by the artist artificially triggering a natural lightning bolt with a small rocket, accomplished in collaboration with the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing at Camp Blanding, Florida, the Hillsborough County Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.

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