Kinetic art: flight
Wooden spheres, plastic hands, thread. Approx 170x100x100cm (variable). 2022
A kinetic art work in the form of a mobile composed of spheres with wings. The wings are in the form of hands. In this video the mobile is positioned so that it is viewed against the sunset.
In this setting, with this lighting, the objects on the mobile resemble wheeling birds or similar flying creatures gathering at sunset and preparing for the night ahead.
The sound is the actual location soundtrack of birds’ evening chorus.
The work was originally created for my solo show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens near Penzance in Cornwall in 2022. This video was taken in Zennor, Cornwall in May 2026.
The photograph below shows some of the winged creatures indoors.
The wings of birds and bats (but not of insects) evolved from what were originally hands or claws, so the use of hands as wings in this artwork isn’t all that far-fetched.
