The Joy of Motion

2015

Ink, Perspex, Wood, Fan

44cm x 44cm x 2.5cm

The picture shows the memoir of The Joy of Motion.

The Joy of Motion was the first ever machine-orientated work of art I’d experimented with, interested in the notion of a machine being the artist, process and language in a sense of “mechanical calligraphy” based on the quote of Edward Allington “Machines can’t write signatures that mean anything, make art or write literature, can they?”

Also inspired by a quote of Natasha Kidd’s – who’s artist talk I attended in which she expressed her dissatisfaction in static artwork, I became engulfed in this idea of non-static artwork in which the machine is the artist, and henceforth I found – a joy in motion.

Works from when the machine was still functional below.