Zoetrope Interactive Sculptures
A zoetrope is a cylinder object with slits on the outside and still images on the inside. When spun, the images create the illusion of an animation.
North Adams in Motion
This zoetrope, installed in 2018 and currently on display in North Adams, MA, was a collaboration with the design and history departments at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. The students designed moving imagery related to the history and growth of North Adams community.
Cyan blue powder coated steel, 50” tall and 20” in diameter.
Humans and Earth
Humans and Earth exhibited in Boynton Beach, FL for Avenue of the Arts in 2009 - 2010 and inspired conversation around earth and the human ecological footprint.
50” in height with 21” diameter, powder coated.
I Fly, You Fly
Steel Zoetrope Sculpture, 50” in height with 21” diameter barrel. Powder coated paint, vinyl images.
I Fly, You Fly displayed for Art on the River in Dubuque, IA. I Fly, You Fly uses a Heron to represent Sustainable Dubuque's preservation of Environmental Integrity, specifically through its Heron Pond Restoration. Sustainability is defined by a community’s ability to meet the environmental, economic, and social equity needs of today without reducing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. I Fly, You Fly symbolizes this positive relationship between generations and the effects our actions today may hold tomorrow.
Evolvement: Life, Nature, Communication
The pink zoetrope, Life, begins with a pink bunny, who transforms into a human and back, while a carrot dangles above. The green zoetrope, Nature, features the rise and fall relationship between a tree and a building. The gray zoetrope, Communication, uses a hieroglyphic symbol that merges into a cell phone and a rock circling into into a wheel form with shiny, gold rims.
Steel zoetrope sculpture series, 46”, 48”, 50” in height with 21” diameter barrels. Powder coated paint.
