Sunday
Dec282008
Blizzard from 1979
Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 12:19PM I design and built Blizzard in 1979 as and edition of 75. It was one of the first sculptures I built using ball bearings. This is a weight drive sculpture using two independent mechanisms.
Each mechanism drives its own patterning wheel. The mechanisms operate at slightly different speeds so the wheels go in and out of phase. This was an early attempt to add constantly shifting patterns to my sculptures.
The sculpture runs very quickly but is quiet relative to my earlier pieces. It took several additional years of work to develop mechanisms that allowed me to control the pace of the motion.
Reader Comments (1)
i love your work dude, for years i come back to it every once in a while just to give a sigh of yessssssss....
would love to know more about the mechanisms...
i actually got 507 mech movements on your suggestion....
Posted @ Monday, January 25, 2010 12:30 PM by Jachepe