Sky Duet • Flight Themed Kinetic Sculpture

I have recently released a new kinetic wall sculpture expanding my exploration into flight-themed kinetic sculptures. Sky Duet is a larger piece comprised of two single bird designs mounted to interact with each other. The result is a peaceful piece reminiscent of birds dancing among fluffy summer clouds. 

Click on the triangle in the image below to see the graceful motion of this piece.

I have revisited the flight theme often in the 40+ years I have been producing kinetic sculpture. To see a history of all my flight oriented pieces click here.

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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.