Square Dance

Coming from a background in automata making Square Dance was his first kinetic-like sculpture. Here the mechanism takes centre stage. This was a very important step as it was a beginning of the transition into a form of mechanical art that he found immensely liberating.

As Square Dance starts to move it falls immediately into a state of entropy and, as with the railway engine on its track, the predictability of its clearly predetermined course is somehow reassuring. A pair of glasses was chosen because they are both mundane and also highly comical, suspended in mid air as if worn by the Invisible Man.
Collette Avry

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