Body Flight

Body Flight
2010
Plastic protectors from various sport uniforms, aluminum, Plexiglas, ventilator, plywood, light bulbs
Because of the low ceiling height I decided to have one of the sculptures hovering over a giant air van like in Indoor skydiving, a popular training tool for skydivers. Vertical wind tunnels enable human beings to fly in air without planes or parachutes, through the force of wind being generated vertically. Wind moves upwards at approximately 195 km/h (120 mph or 55 m/s), the terminal velocity of a falling human body belly-downwards.
The round corpus is made of plywood covered with a semitransparent Plexiglas plate.
One can see the shadows of a rotating propeller that is caste by a strong light source underneath.
The Van component has a diameter of 2600 cm and had to be 60 cm high to fit the mechanical and electronically elements. The Airflow was simulated by the rotating shadows of the wing blades. The sculpture was hanging apex. 200 cm above the surface by steel wires. The work was shown at the Sara Hilden Art Museum in Tampere.

Body Shop

Body Shop
2010
Plastic protectors from various sport uniforms, aluminum, concrete
Hanging 4 channel video display with 23”W TFT Color LCD screens in cone shaped steel display (120x120x60 cm pointed slightly angled towards all 4 directions)
The displays shows video footage of black and white painted body parts filmed in a black box. The face, hands and feats perform simple movements during a looped interval of several minutes. The strong contrast of black and white reminds of robotic 3Ddesign.
Underneath the hanging display is the dressing area. It is a ring of aluminum that is supported by aluminum posts with concrete feet. Hanging from this ring is a selection of equipment garment -like clothes- waiting to be tried on. There are models of arms, legs as well as upper and downer torsos on display.

Centre of Mass

Center Of Mass
2010
Kinetic sculpture on stand
SP motor, steel, wires, hard shell plastic protective elements
Figure 220x 90x40 cm, Stand from metal with motor 90x90x30 cm

The work “Center Of Mass”, is a slightly bigger than human size sculpture that collapses and erects its form in a 1 min interval. A hidden motor inside the stand pulls a steel cable that is connected to several joints of the figure and folds its limbs together. Steel springs restore the figure to its normal standing posture when the motor reverses its setting.
The figures outlines consist of black plastic protective shells. (Various forms of sports)
The ancient Greek physicist, mathematician, and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse first introduced the concept of center of mass. The center of mass of a body does not generally coincide with its geometric center, and this property can be exploited. When high jumpers perform a "Fosbury Flop", they bend their body in such a way that it is possible for the jumper to clear the bar while his or her center of mass does not. The work is an experiment whereby I try to simulate human movements with simple mechanical elements.