The artist's photographs are based on 19th-century drawings of electrical experiments performed by pioneering scientists such as Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday. Goldes attempts to verify and recreate these scientists' early experiments, transforming their utilitarian purposes into aesthetic ideals. The artist's drawings toy with electricity as a material, causing it to behave in unexpected ways by utilizing the conductive properties of graphite. High-voltage currents are applied to drawings made with graphite on paper, producing a scorched record of the original traces and minimal forms. The artist photographs the moment each drawing is electrified, offering the photograph as a record of the experiment, and the charred drawing as the embodied proof of the science itself. Goldes states, "I need to see phenomenon and discover in the process, what remains mysterious and full of wonder. That gap between mental explanation and subjective experience is what I desire to find. I can take nothing on faith."