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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them ... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.
You see nature and then you try to emulate it.
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
The basis of everything I do is the universe.
The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.
My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it ... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
Above all, art should be fun.
That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.
About my method of work: first it's the state of mind - Elation (joy).
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
