emotional engineering

Watching Nova on PBS last night and there was a short segment on Arthur Ganson's kinetic sculpture. (I haven't gotten the image upload quite figured out yet, so you'll have to follow the links.)

This is great stuff. As he says, he's interested in motion (hence the kinetic part) because he finds it always generates a reaction, a feeling, and he wants to "make statements really on a purely emotional level." Clearly there's little use for his sculptures other than emotional involvement, aesthetic. And they're so well engineered.

I like the artichoke petal and the scraps of paper that look like birds. How was he able to tear all those pieces to look so alike?

And the abandoned doll is wonderfully creepy.