Expansion is a contemporary art mixed media sculpture (bronze and electricity) by Paige Bradley, first exhibited in 2004.
It is a depiction of a nude woman in a meditative state with light emanating from cracks in the body.
Bradley began with a wax sculpture of a woman who appears to be meditating in the lotus position.
Bradley cast the pieces of the wax sculpture in bronze, and assembled the pieces so that they floated apart from one another and then she had a lighting specialist construct a system which lights the statue from within.
[4] The illumination makes the sculpture of a naked woman appear to be bleeding light from within out of the spaces between the cracks in the bronze.