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“For each SOS, I create a unique “family” of individual members. Each
solid sphere gets ingrained with a different “character” which allows them
to respond and behave differently to the sounds they detect and to each
other.
Unpredictability and probabilities play a big roll in this work. Your voice
will influence the spheres but will not control them. It’s not like cueing
billiard balls or say, kicking a rock, where you can more or less predict an
outcome through Newtonian physics: when you kick an emergent or living
system, you can expect the unexpected.” DF
Self Organizing Still Life, rp1
2007, cast stone, acrylic spheres, sensor
21 x 25 x 6 inches / 52 x 62 x 15 cm
Private collection USA