Spin Sketches at the Observatory
''Toys are not as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.’’ Charles Eames
Tops (1969) Eames office
A top is perfect, profound in its simplicity, offering up a multitude of different teachings. Truly alive when it is in balance.
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Turning the Observatory
Things that spin, fishing paraphernalia at King John's House, Romsey
Trompo
34 seconds (looped)
Animated pen drawing
2016
Fish Sketch 1
Fish sketch 2
Made from the coil of a measuring tape.
Trout in the River Test, Mottisfont
Additional Observations and Personal Predilections
Spin
The Lockerley Mechanical Society helping me to engineer a new work.
