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As a college student studying philosophy, Paul Seide, the son of an artist who helped develop acrylic paint, had the vision of creating sculptures of light. Physics class demonstrations of spectrometry using Gisler tubes filled with gaseous elements led him to explore neon. Learning how to bend neon tubes and "charge" them in a trade school gave him the technical background he needed; he quickly developed a system which eliminated the need for wires so that his forms are "magically" illuminated by radio waves. All of this has enabled him to fulfill his artistic aim: sculpture of light. Paul Seide's work can be found in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Musee des Arts Decoratifs Switzerland, and National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, and the Wheaton Museum of Glass.
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