Barbara Husar and astrophysicist Michel Breitfellner work at the intersection of art, perception, and cosmology. Combining artistic intuition with scientific thinking, they develop formats that investigate orientation, scale, consciousness, and humanity’s position within larger cosmic systems.

Formed by the fusion of silica sand from a lightning strike, this rare glass-like tube captures one of nature’s most powerful phenomena in mineral form - transformed into a wind instrument. Lightning is a high-energy electrical discharge, a natural act of re-balance, occurring either within clouds or between the atmosphere and Earth's surface. Its intensity can heat the surrounding air to over 30,000 Kelvin which is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. This flute, crafted from fulgurite, is more than an instrument: it is an artifact of impact, a conduit of electricity, a vessel of elemental memory. Through the flow of air, the fossilized flash reawakens as audible vibration.   listen to the flute