Waves and Wheels
A collaboration with Kyle Hounsell, Engineer, Raytheon. Winchell Building, Natick, MA
Waves and Wheels was born out of a collaboration with Kyle Hounsell, who then worked at the Media Lab MIT. This collaborations continues my interest in the intersection of science and art. We began working in the studio to experiment with the idea of motion, the use of abandoned wheels from an old factory. I used these forms to explore a subject close to my heart: motion in its many forms, power and illusion. From the structure I created, we moved to experimenting with motion and the illusion that light plays on water. We investigated light waves, water waves and wheels. Creating an illusion of more than what is physically or visually there. The theme resonates with my drawings and experimentation with magnets in my Elements of Attraction series.
I created a structure from remnants of wooden wheels that moved parts of an old singer sewing machine through a factory. The waterspout is one stream of water flowing from tubing, that when spinning and hit with a laser that creates the illusion of multiple bands of water from the one stream of water. Kyle built the spinning component out of parts of an old laptop to hit the flowing water. The tubing emerged from the top of wood construction. On the wall, a painting of an ocean wave.
