Wood, fabric, electric train, fan, sound
2002
Foreground - 5'H x 18'W; Background - 12'H x 24'W
Exhibition Space:
  Southern Exposure Gallery. San Francisco, California..


Two suspended circular wooden structures rotate very slowly while a sound piece is played through a funky speaker from one corner of the gallery. The pieces are large (one is 24' across, the other is 18') but very delicate, built in a truss-like fashion from balsa and basswood. Although large and lumbering, they are moved by smaller devices: one is pushed by a small fan, the other moves like a hula hoop as a locomotive travels around its perimeter. The accompanying sound (Gene Autry singing, "You Are My Sunshine") having been slowed and distorted to a dirge, keeps pace with the hypnotic movement of the sculptures.