Untitled (Wheel Bottle) and Sisypuss
(after Muybridge and Marey)

“Untitled (Bottle Wheel),” 2011 and “Sisypuss (after Muybridge and Marey),” 2015 are both kinetic sculptures inspired by mechanical innovations that led to the development of moving images, film, and video. My interest in reflecting on these moments of invention and technological transition emerges from my rumination on a personal choice to pursue glassblowing as a technical skill. Like the technologies explored in the two sculptures, glassblowing has long been outdated since consumer needs drove innovations that streamlined and ultimately automated the production of nearly all glass products. Like the mechanics of producing moving images, which has become more and more opaque of a process over more than a century of technical developments, glass production has disappeared from sight. There is now a condition where interacting in real-time with the material and space has again become magic seemingly revealed.