![]() ![]() Additionally now they are selling “kits” on Amazon. The “companies” dissolve and new websites appear every other day as the previous ones get shut down due to complaints. A number of kinetic artists are experiencing this. If you purchase, some sites steal data while others ship you wood scraps. No one has been given permission or been licensed to use these designs or images. All have stolen videos and images from our website and David’s IP. The constantly shifting rotation rates combined with this pattern creates a piece I find hard to stop watching.Īpparently there is a concern out of China that is currently putting up fake websites, instagram, tiktok and facebook posts offering David’s designs for $39- $59. Just as that becomes recognizable everything is wiped away in a blink pattern. Half of the pattern shows as collapsing fans while the opposite half is expanding. I love the mix of 3 different patterns during each rotation. The second attempt worked as I had hoped. I tweaked the design and refined my center of mass calculation to more precisely locate the exact point. Of course the real test was to actually make the design. I tested the patterning by generating an animation of the design in motion. Eventually I found a design that I thought would work both visually and dynamically. I played with the number of spokes, their thickness and their angle relative to each other. Using my ancient copy of Working Model software along with my favorite drawing program Illustrator and a spreadsheet I ran numerous simulations looking for a design with the center of mass at the center of the wheel. Last year I decided to explore whether this really was an impossible wheel to balance. These are the types of challenges I’ve been enjoying revisiting now that I’m “retired”. I did enjoy the “blink” effect and the varied patterns but thought it too challenging to produce in an edition. This was a difficult sculpture to make because even with the outside ring, balance was still hard to achieve. Of course this created a significantly off-balanced wheel but I compensated using a large outside frame ring that varied in width. I explored what would happen if I reversed the normal order of fans in a patterning wheel and had them point in opposite directions. In 2016 I explored a new concept in a one-of-a-kind sculpture called Blink. This is especially true at this late stage of my career where I have explored and given up on many ideas. It often happens that one sculpture starts the idea for another. ![]()
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