Exploring Kinetic Art
with David & Marji

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Places for inspiration...

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Marji and I like sculpture parks. Two of our favorites are within a few hours drive and we've visited them often.

Storm King is in Mountainville, New York. It is a huge park with majestic works. Grounds for Sculpture is a smaller park just outside of Trenton in Hamilton, New Jersey. It is a beautifully landscaped park with several large galleries for indoor shows. Grounds for Sculpture also has a flock of Peacocks that are allowed to roam. During a recent visit one of the males put on a show for us. It was quite windy that day and the way the fan moved in the breeze set the kinetic ideas whirling.

Testing Fiesta kinetic sculptures

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I've spent the month of March building the first group of Fiesta kinetic sculptures. The final step before packing is testing. I set them all up on their respective mounting template backboards and let them run for a few days on a large wall at the back of my studio.

The first test of a new design production group is always a bit tense. These were very well behaved, in fact the big surprise is run time. These are all running in excess of 18 hours. My initial estimate based on the prototype was 12 hours.

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