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Arthur Ganson's sculpture, "Thinking Chair" the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass taken 2016.
Watch it in action, here.
After years (decades?) of walking around that stone, the chair (which is about an inch tall) has walked itself into a literal rut.
I absolutely love his work, but it's hard to capture in a photograph because his gestural sculptures each perform very small, slow, natural, subtle movements
... and it's the movement itself that is the biggest feature (and beauty) of his art.
However, this worn stage for this bright yellow chair encapsulates years of movement in a single moment.
Watch it in action, here.
After years (decades?) of walking around that stone, the chair (which is about an inch tall) has walked itself into a literal rut.
I absolutely love his work, but it's hard to capture in a photograph because his gestural sculptures each perform very small, slow, natural, subtle movements
... and it's the movement itself that is the biggest feature (and beauty) of his art.
However, this worn stage for this bright yellow chair encapsulates years of movement in a single moment.
Stare at this machine: Brownian Rice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CqvWVey3M
or 27 Scraps of Paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knGELzxloqY
or My Little Violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZN7JWCMag
His work is fascinating to watch. He calls his medium "Gestural sculpture".
Edited at 2017-11-18 03:06 am (UTC)
I originally found Ganson's stuff after clicking around curiously after someone linked me to videos of the StrandBeests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWwXrSyuGIA
Glad you liked the picture and started watching vids! If you go to Boston, it is TOTALLY worth going to see them! They are loads of fun and many of them you can hand-crank and work yourself.
Let's hope the machines don't take over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hW2vhkCOFc
- Erulisse (one L)
;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25EhKdQkdlc