The Art of Orgonite
An old idea, poured new
A craft with roots in the 20th century, made today by hand in an Essex garden workshop.
A short history
Where it comes from
In the 1930s to 1950s the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich wrote about a life energy he called "orgone", and built boxes and sculptural "cloudbusters" from layered metals and organic materials. His ideas were controversial in his lifetime and remain outside mainstream science.
Around the turn of this century, makers took inspiration from his layered designs and began casting metal shavings and crystals in resin. The result, called orgonite, became a folk art of its own, with its own shapes and traditions: pyramids, tower busters, pendants and garden pieces with copper pipes.
We share this as history, tradition and personal experience, not as science. For us it is a craft.
Materials
What goes into the dark
Resin
Clear or tinted, poured in layers and left to cure slowly so every curl of metal stays sharp.
Metals
Copper, brass and aluminium shavings, gathered from workshops and lathes, so nothing goes to waste.
Crystals
Clear quartz, amethyst, shungite, tourmaline. We record where each one came from.
Copper coils
Wound by hand, sometimes to a royal cubit of wire, set at the heart of the piece.
The maker
Vernon's story
Aether Energy & Art is the workshop of Vernon Lacey. He pours, layers and finishes every piece himself: small pyramids and orgone bases, hand-wound copper, and statement garden sculptures in copper and resin, inspired by Reich's cloudbuster designs.
Long before the studio had a name, Vernon was filming his builds in the garden and sharing them as "Vern Non Duality": mornings of copper pipes and resin, and the less glamorous side too, from sanding tarnished copper back to a shine to restoring older pieces.
Every piece is signed by hand and given its own serial number, build record and certificate, so its story can always be traced.
Watch the workshop films
Craft, not claims. Our pieces are works of art, made to be looked at, lived with and enjoyed.