Friday
Oct292010
Gears Galore
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 7:19PM David has rarely used gears in his kinetic sculptures because wooden gears are just too inefficient. In fact I can only recollect two sculptures - Anticipation from 1976 and Cadence from 1978 - that used meshing gears. That said I love gears, collect gears and have used them in my early sculpture work and even as subjects of paintings and drawings. (I am going back to the 70's here!). I bring up gears because a collector of David's work recently sent in the link to this YouTube video of gear studies noting that he thought we would relate to it.
This is a fascinating set of odd gear pairings. I wouldn't expect David to ever use them in his work but I can imagine a giant series on our front lawn!
Thanks Mark Y from Boston!
Reader Comments (1)
Aloha. I would be happy to send David a set of my plans for all these gears, plus a few more that are not on my video, if he'd like to peruse them.
I'd love to see what he could do with them. His creativity is a joy.
Aloha. Clayton
Posted @ Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:31 PM by Clayton moalanikai@yahoo.com