Coal is a fossil fuel created from the remains of plants that lived and died about 100 to 400 million years ago when parts of the earth were covered with huge swampy forests. Coal is classified as a nonrenewable energy source it takes millions of years to form.
The energy we get from coal today from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun million of years ago. All living plants store solar energy through a process known as photosynthesis. When plants die, this energy is usually released as the plants decay process is interrupted, preventing the release of the stored solar energy. The energy is locked into the coal. It might assume that coal is the bi-product of the ancient light, which is fossilized light by plants.
Millions of years ago, dead plant matter fell into swampy water and over the years, a thick layer of dead plants lay decaying at the bottom of the swamps. Over time, the surface and climate of the earth changed, and more water and washed in, halting the decay process.
The weight of the top layers of water and dirt packed down the lower layers of plant matter. Under heat and pressure, this plant matter underwent chemical and physical changes, pushing out oxygen and leaving rich hydrocarbon deposits. What once had been plants gradually turned in coal.
These photographs experiment the process of coalification in metaphorical way. Laser beam represents solar energy, which stored in quartz crystal and photosynthesized by the lens of a camera. In each frame the different light angle interacts to the quartz crystal as a result, it creates different effects with the crystal.
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