final sculpture piece

For my final sculpture piece, I am building an electric chair out of wood and metal.
The assignment is to make a "caricature" out of the artist Walter de Maria.
de Maria is famous for his Lightning Field in New Mexico--a giant plot of land, surrounded by mountains, in which he installed hundreds of long metal rods to attract lightning during a storm. The idea of the installation is to allow viewers to walk amongst the rods for an entire day--whether or not it storms. It's supposed to be a completely safe, peaceful place to experience an almost spiritual relationship with land, air and sky.

As a "caricature" of Walter de Maria, I am building a lightning-prone "death chair"; the piece is meant to kill the viewer if he/she is seated in it during a lightning storm.

Here is my piece in progress: