Limited Edition of 95
Size: 32” w x 47” h x 6” d
Approximate Run Time: 18 Hours
Price: $4400.00 - opening bid
Boomerang © 2021
About Boomerang
I started experimenting with “switchback arms” in my patterning wheels as early as the 1980’s with sculptures like Star Shadow and Crystal. It wasn’t until Illusion in 2005 that this pattern started to come together. This led to Radiance in 2007 and Shimmer in 2009 which were smaller more accessible sculptures that basically used the same patterning wheel with completely different mechanisms. In 2018 I returned to the switchback spoke for Deja Vu because I had a new mechanism to try with a large patterning wheel. This concept generates seemingly endless pattern variations with just a small tweak in the spoke’s shape.
Boomerang is an extension of this design path. This sculpture creates yet another interesting pattern by using a shape reminiscent of a boomerang as the switchback spoke. The variations are endless. I liked this one because it creates a pattern that is both familiar and completely new. It reminds me of gentle waves in a small pond that are growing and shrinking at the same time as they interfere with each other.
This is a long running sculpture (around 20 hours) that uses only a single spring. I designed a simple symmetrical base and winder system the lets the pattern do all the talking. The recording has no music so you can listen to the wooden clicking sounds generated while in motion.