Patterns
I've been working with a pattern set for some years now, incorporating it into a number of art pieces ranging from lamps to kinetic motorised sculpture. Here's just a few of them.
Light-up hexagonal zen puzzle
Light-up hexagonal zen puzzle
Album box
Album box
Concrete pavers
Concrete pavers
TV cabinet drawer fronts, and white hex lamp.
TV cabinet drawer fronts, and white hex lamp.
Multi-functional game board and drawer.
Multi-functional game board and drawer.
Cheese board (slate recycled from a pool table).
Cheese board (slate recycled from a pool table).
Verandah door.
Verandah door.
Internal door transom
Internal door transom
Some paintings
The Factory
90 x 90cm
Acrylic on canvas
Tahiti
90 x 90cm
Acrylic on canvas
Melt 1
90 x 90cm
Acrylic on canvas
Blue waves
Layered blue and frosted-white acrylic. 40cm x 40cm.
Layered blue and frosted-white acrylic. 40cm x 40cm.
This piece is 7 layers of acrylic in 2 colours and is made to hang square or diagonally.
Mechanised Zen
Roughly cube shaped, and containing hundreds of custom-designed gears, this kinetic sculpture has two display-faces each showing 36 square tiles that rotate in clusters to produce 2046 symmetrical patterns per side.
The tiles rotate fairly slowly "in real life". So here's a couple of videos of it in action and sped-up (without its protective case on too, so you can see some of the guts of the mechanism).
THIS IS VIDEO, YOU MAY NEED TO WAIT A LITTLE WHILE FOR IT TO LOAD:
The "inside" of the machine shows off some of the gears. Especially interesting are the cross-shaped "Geneva gears" that are used here to ensure that the tile sets rotate 90 degrees at each turn.
For a more detailed look at the many layers of the gears inside the machine, take a look at this story.
Let there be light:
A lamp made from compressed bamboo and rice paper:
Who wants a time machine?
OK, so maybe it can't take us back to the past, but surely if I can get enough uranium for it...:
Wood, epoxy, glass, acrylic, LED strip lighting etc:
Another stacked-layer work. This one in painted MDF:
And a different approach with tinted acrylic: using the sun to create a nice free-standing stained-glass window:
