2005
everything happens for a reason
sugar crystal, motor, atomic projection clock, wood, thread
10 x 12 inches
description of action:
- a crystal is suspended from the ceiling on a golden thread, forming a pendulum
- the pendulum itself has no motor and lies inert until it is acted upon
- a motorized platform that has a dismantled sharper image atomic projection clock laying
on it sits below
- the motorized platform rotates slowly, supported by a very thin pin in the center
- the clock is simply laid on top, gravity keeping it in place
- the platform rotates, parts of the clock strike the pendulum setting it into motion
- when the two bodies collide, both of their movements are disrupted
- as the move away from each other, each attempts to restore its own harmonic motion
- neither party is winning and both pose an equal amount of danger to the other
- if left running for an extended amount of time, they will eventually destroy each other.
