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. 

 

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/charles_and_ray_eames_mystical_toys

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

Duchamp's spinning optical experiments

The Lockerley Mechanical Society helping me to engineer a new work.

 

http://www.lockerley.org.uk/index.php/groups/lockerley-mechanicals