Radio waves are the energies and the ghosts of our electromagnetic world. During the 2nd half of the XIX century, people could suddenly communicate remotely. A new invisible space opened up, and henceforth, a medium to transport these distant and disembodied voices. These electromagnetic spaces were thought as a surface of transmission where spirits could send telegraphic messages to transmit to the living. The female mediums embodied a sort of electrical transmission system. The participants placed around the circle were an extension of this system, their arms as cables interconnecting by holding hands acting as a radio transceiver.
This research tries to imagine an electronic embroidered circuit created by these mediums with the textile techniques found in the «Ouvrages de Dames» book and inspired by crystal radios that use minimal homemade electrical components powered by the static electricity available in the air. This embroidered radio is a sensing surface that attempts to intercept energies through radio waves revealing the presence of ghostly energies of our environment.

The artworks of Claire Williams take the form of woven antennas, glass sculptures filled with plasma or devices that sense the invisible. Data of radio telescopes and radio scanners materialize themselves in knitted stitches, sound vibrations or through luminous plasma. She sculpts her electronic components to make visible the electromagnetic movements from the cosmos, through our magnetosphere, to radio waves that cross our terrestrial environment or the ones emanating from our bodies and psychic activity. She is currently exploring in a duo « The Æthers » which collects and reactivate practices of the invisibles found in the archives of experimental and occult sciences of the 19th and 20th century.