Each Life
This piece started to take shape in my head several weeks ago when I began to see how many more opportunities there are for 2D art than for 3D. I still wanted it to be kinetic, interactive, playful, nostalgic, and have multiple layers of meaning, but I wanted to see if I could do all that in two inches or less. I was also hoping for something that had less chance of breaking and would be easier to maintain than my previous pieces.
I made the sculpture from black walnut, white oak, and mahogany with alder for the frame. The single 3/8 inch steel ball is moved through the maze with the help of a one inch long, 3/4 inch diameter neodymium magnet embedded in the mahogany wand. The glass is 1/8 inch window pane grade. The frame is decorated with a second maze that wraps all the way around the piece. It is 57 inches wide, 36 inches tall, and 1 and a half inches thick. For the details of how I made Each Life, you can look through the
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