photos: Michael Cullen
mechanical sculpture
54” w x 42” h x 8.75” d
acrylic, metal, custom electronics
not editioned
mechanical design: Colin Harry
machining: Paul Cahill
This kinetic sculpture messes with the formality of the minimalist cube by pushing the rigid form into emotive territory through a sequence of actions that deal with the precarity of life—breaking up / letting go. The opening of the cube allows for different narrative connotations that play out in the accompanying letterpress print – "sit tight", "let the bird fly away", "let the right one in", "let the bottom fall out", "let the left side win". In this sculptural iteration the interaction becomes more complicated – acted out through the relationship between two squares. The relationship is defined as a breakup.
2019 an accumulated life, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.