A good fluorescent tube is a dead fluorescent tube that had taken up residence in the wooded and lawned park of the château. It stretched out in a trinity across three distinct geometric zones, like cemeteries where, as was often the case, children could play. Americans, Canadians, Belgians, New Zealanders, Senegalese, Toulousains, Ariègeois… all in the same boat… mostly German and Dutch, actually (Osram, Sylvania, Philips)… if not Chinese.

231 fluorescent tubes (77 per zone) were planted in the park’s lawn, after being marked out with string. Positioned vertically, they attempted to maintain a random angle of freedom between 0° and 0°.
These used tubes came from a regional collection center. At the end of the weekend, they were taken there to be recycled and ground into powder.
At night, the moonlight could highlight their spectral whiteness. They were, in a way, highlighting different industrial and domestic memories, both individual and collective, brought together in the ephemeral nature of the event.

The first work in the “now” series (for no watt), it referenced the approach of the Negawatt association, which opens up a line of thought and action and whose influence also spreads through some repainted propaganda.
A fluorescent tube (or a compact fluorescent lamp) certainly consumes less energy than an incandescent bulb for the same light output, but it requires recycling, which is only effective in 30% of cases in France (due to mercury).

An imbalance within a balance. Degrowth within growth. Tesla might perhaps have been able to relight them with the force of his “universal energy” and make a spectacle of it.