This sculpture is a dynamic meditation on the beauty of rotational motion and how it can play with depth and color perception. Inspired by toroidal forms in nature — from smoke rings drifting through the air to magnetic fields that shape plasma in high-energy fusion reactions — the piece invites the viewer to slow down and observe closely.
At the heart of the sculpture is a central axis around which twelve equilateral triangles revolve in a continuous dance. Each triangle holds a dyed wooden block in vivid primary hues of red, blue, and yellow.
The resulting motion is slow and deliberate, generating ever-shifting arrangements of color and shape. As the piece turns, viewers witness a cascade of transient patterns — a three-dimensional, analog animation that never repeats in quite the same way.
Wood, acrylic dye, plastic, steel, stepper motors, electronics.
Hypersonic:
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
Kirman Hanson
David Gould
Petra Schmidt
Photos and video by Hypersonic
"Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In Rainbows plays further with the notions of planetary movements, the sun, and time. This piece takes the idea of a sundial one step further by allowing the 12 sliding elements forming the clock-face to become individual conduits of refracted light. The elements gracefully rotate as they move, changing the emitted colours with every angle and position in new and surprising ways.
Dichroic film, acrylic, aluminum, paint, plastic, linear tracks, stepper motors, electronics.
Hypersonic:
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
David Gould
Kirman Hanson
Petra Schmidt
Mischa Langley
In Lignum is the first in a series of playful wall-mounted sculptures inspired by early human observations of planetary movements. This piece invites viewers to linger and observe the generating patterns which are formed by 12 hand-carved wooden blocks that are drifting across the surface. Generative patterns are constantly evolving. Eventually, they might align and tell the time.
Douglas fir, aluminum, plastic, linear tracks, stepper motors, electronics.
Hypersonic
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
David Gould
Kirman Hanson
Petra Schmidt
Mischa Langley
