Mark White Fine Art
The Process
While I work in a number of three-dimensional sculptural and two dimensional patined media, the kinetics of the sculptures featured on the website create organic forms and optical effects. Technically speaking, they are curvilinear parallelograms that appear to shrink and expand at slower speeds and pulsate at higher speeds. As core element is the foreshortening of the planes and lines as they pass each other in their respective orbits.
Arriving at these effects and the mechanics of producing them didn't just occur to me in a flash of inspiration, but was the process of much experimentation. I began by hammering copper hot and cold onto forms and into forms as reliefs. The breakthrough was when I hammered a freely formed shape into a sand bag, thus producing a compound curve. Then I reversed the compound curve in the same form.
It was a defining moment when I felt I had discovered the right method for my kinetic art. I then began to expand my skills to develop a vocabulary of organic sculptural forms and effects with the added benefit of being functional art for contemplation and centering.
Sculptures are made with stainless steel structural elements with copper or aluminum blades. They are precisely balanced to respond to extremely light winds yet strong enough to withstand 100 M.P.H. winds. Permanently lubricated stainless steel ball bearings and all stainless steel mechanical parts are maintenance free.
Arriving at these effects and the mechanics of producing them didn't just occur to me in a flash of inspiration, but was the process of much experimentation. I began by hammering copper hot and cold onto forms and into forms as reliefs. The breakthrough was when I hammered a freely formed shape into a sand bag, thus producing a compound curve. Then I reversed the compound curve in the same form.
It was a defining moment when I felt I had discovered the right method for my kinetic art. I then began to expand my skills to develop a vocabulary of organic sculptural forms and effects with the added benefit of being functional art for contemplation and centering.
Sculptures are made with stainless steel structural elements with copper or aluminum blades. They are precisely balanced to respond to extremely light winds yet strong enough to withstand 100 M.P.H. winds. Permanently lubricated stainless steel ball bearings and all stainless steel mechanical parts are maintenance free.
