Low Budget Flyer

November 2009.

I forgot about this last ditch effort to scrounge up some architectural work in Atlanta. I thought it was pretty funny, but apparently the effect was lost on the 30 or so firms I sent it out to. It was supposed to look like I created the flyer in an old school tape-it-all-to-one-page-and-xerox type deal. The powers of Corbu weren't enough to help me find gainful employment!

American Youth

American Youth, July 2010. 4'x4'. Chrome sphere, electrical cord, stone base.

This sculpture concept is a four foot metallic ball emblazoned with the American flag. The once bright and reflective surface has been scarred creating a dull hazy finish. The viewer would see a glimmer of their visage in the piece. The youthful ball has an electrical cord sprawled with little care around its base. The base the work sits on is a moat of sort that protects as well as isolates the individual ball. The cord and the moat represent a lack of functioning- the cord unplugged without a socket to active the automaton is useless; the moat keeps it from operating even if it were able to find a place to plug in. Disaffected, content with it's own complacency, machinating for someone else to arouse it the larval ball waits. Think of 'The bride stripped bare', but without the functioning machinery. This thing is dormant and it doesn't care.

Electromagnetic Induction Road Apparatus

July, 2010.

This is a device that produces energy by compressing a paddle inserted into a roadway. In a busy intersection cars would drive over the paddle pushing it downward thousands and thousands of times, each time they drive over it, which will spin a flywheel attached to a magnet within a wire coil. This electromagnetic induction, which is the creation of voltage across a conductor through a magnetic field of some sort, would supply energy to a battery which would store the power. I'm not sure if something of this sort has been invented or patented (I couldn't find any information on a self-powered road), but to take back some of the energy we invest in our awful automobiles could only do us good I think.