This video shows the thought process and construction behind creating something that spins. The challenge is to do this by building around it from scratch and seeing if i can get it to spin how i want it to do.
Gerald Laing’s ‘Small Love Machine’ is a striking resemblance to my own work but with a different context.
http://www.geraldlaing.com/index.php/work/abstractsculpture/
I have decided to add another project almost like a prototype, i will try to create something hand turned instead of machine spun. This will consist of toothpicks and cotton reels. The aim of the piece will be to successfully create something which has a purpose, that purpose not yet being finalised.
I am also interested in very small mechanisms such as watches and would like to create something using a watch mechanism.
Michael Landy is a contemporary, sculptural artist. In 2001, he created a piece of work which was commissioned by Artangel and The Times. It was entitled Break down and was created in a former C&A store in Oxford Street, London.
Landy -“I had all this stuff – a lovely Saab 900 car, a nice Richard James suit – and I thought, ‘How can I mess it up for myself?’ That was the moment I decided to destroy all my worldly goods. “As a child I’d always been into taking things apart so I could see how they were put together. I call it an examination of ‘consumerism’”.
Landy used his machine for a different approach. His work was more commercial, it was large scale but more practical, it was built for one use only, destroying his objects. Landy’s work is there to tell a story, which differs from my own.
This is a clip taken from the kinetic work ‘Bussola’ by Jennifer Townley. Jennifer has used an electric motor, like myself to make an intricate skeletal looking set of steel objects move. The way they interact makes them look like waves, this movement is very solid and fluid which is contrasting to my work, this has a very crisp feel and finish to it which for me finishes the piece nicely. I think the slow movement is the key to this piece the pace is key to showing the beauty of the work, it’s very hypnotic. I think i can take this information and try and attribute it to my own.
