Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Kinetic Drawing Machines: Rhetorical Models”.
So people would say i’m i’m a math guy or i’m an art guy, but they were very directly related to me and i wanted to show that when, when you turn the crank, the cloud cloth above it moves and you can look at it and say: that’s Magic and i really like it, it’s beautiful or you can look at it and seek out the direct driving principles beneath it. So you look at a cloud and you say: that’s, that’s beautiful or you say: that’s you, research and you say: that’s the product of water. Vapor and light i’m patrick’s villains, and i i make what i call rhetorical models which are um supposed to be philosophy: lessons treated like science equipment, so a machine that its only output is an idea, and that gives a place for uh. Philosophical ideas to live outside.
Of books taking the rational root to the irrational, so mechanical, precise, uh, mathematical, normally cold technology and numbers uh, take you to an emotional or um human reaction. Balance is the the first one sort of the introduction to the idea, because it’s the easiest to grasp immediately. I think it’s the yin yang, good and evil concept is easy to chew on so they’re oblong gears that you think would not mesh are our logical brains, say ears have to be round, but i wanted to have a little switch go up in the viewer’s head. That says: wait a second things don’t have to be the way i think they should order is again the the relation between the rational and the irrational, and also the um, the natural world and the digital world. So uh, when you spin it the little fingers, flick, switches and turn lights on and off that light up ones and zeros.
So, basically you’re translating the natural landscape into the digital landscape and you’re supposed to think of what happens when we oversimplify or just live digitally. We have to experience nature and all its complexity uh, the last one i don’t really have a name for, but it’s more like schedule and timing. It comes uh at the moment in my life, i’m not really sure where i’m going and i’m trying to create my ideal world uh by wrestling the universe into place. So i’m taking a blank sheet and squishing it into the form of my choice by getting the car or the house or the friends that i want and i’m telling myself if you wait for everything uh to line up to get that perfect uh. One snapshot, which is the little uh picture, that lines up um then you’re spending most of your life waiting to be happy and i’m telling myself enjoy what you’ve got at the moment. .