Art in Motion by Lara Ehrlich

Marji and I were recently interviewed by Lara Ehrlich of Boston University for a piece in their spring edition of the College of Arts and Sciences magazine. I have a degree in Physics from BU (CAS ’74) and they discovered one of their alum was doing something a little on the weird side. She wrote a wonderful piece that I think captures the essence of our 40 year career with Wood That Works. We also spent a day with the photographer Pat Piasecki, and another with videographers Joe Chan and Jason Kimball. We had a lot of fun talking with Lara and working with the entire BU team as they put together the article and two videos. Here are some links to the article and videos.

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Read the article here.

How it all began........

How to Make a Kinetic Sculpture

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WOW! I am fascinated!

I would love to get to see this creative musical kinetic sculpture in person.  There is just so much to experience here!

Wintergatan - Marble Machine from Wintergatan on Vimeo.

The machine was designed and built by Martin Molin. The audio track of the performance is available here.

A Different Point of View

Silver Symphony is one of my favorite all time pieces.  I have been exploring Instagram which allows short videos in a square format. It has inspired me to look at my sculptures from different angles. Here is Silver Symphony from worm's eye view.

You can follow my photographic explorations on instagram at #woodthatworks.

How to Wind Infinity

The winding techniques for may of David's sculptures is obvious - you simply turn the winding wheel. But sculptures like Infinity and Nautilus have no winding wheel. Since pictures are better than words, and for kinetic sculpture, videos are better than pictures, David created a short video demonstrating the winding of Infinity.

Here is a link to more information about the Infinity kinetic sculpture.

Infinity is here!

A new sculpture has just been added to the Wood That Works line. I have been working on it, refining it and living with it for a long time. The resulting motion is filled with subtle variations that keep it interesting. It is always a challenge to show the depth of variation in a short video. So I made two. The first is the quick 2 minute variety including detail shots. But then I also created an extended video for those that like to explore the variations that happen over time. Check them out!

The short version is first.........

Followed by the long version.....

• For more information go the Infinity Info page on the website here.
• To order go here.