{"id":10582,"date":"2026-10-24T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=10582"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:13:22","slug":"wire-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wire-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended wire kinetic sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Revolving wire sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1239073204?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wire sculpture.  30x40x25cm approx  2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you&#8217;ve finished with a spiralbound sketchbook you can always turn the spiral into a kinetic sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I created this sculpture partly due to my interest in optical illusions and the ambiguity of perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the spiral wire of a spiralbound sketchbook is viewed in isolation from the sketchbook the spirals form a tube-like structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the spiral is observed in certain conditions, such as in this work. the nature of the spiral is hard to interpret. The spiral is reduced from being a three dimensional wire to being a two dimensional black line. The line is interpreted as resembling a tubular structure but the exact orientation of the tube is sometimes hard to deduce &#8211; which end of the tube is nearer to the observer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work is a form of mobile, with its qualities relying on the facts that it is suspended and rotating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me the structure of the tube exhibits the zoomorphic property of sometimes resembling the ribs of a snake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/wire-sculpture-suspended-rotating-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wire sculpture suspended and rotating\" class=\"wp-image-10589\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6572435138565988;width:494px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/wire-sculpture-suspended-rotating-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/wire-sculpture-suspended-rotating-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/wire-sculpture-suspended-rotating.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The suspended wire sculpture against the sky seems to be reduced to a two dimensional line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wire sculpture. 30x40x25cm approx 2026 When you&#8217;ve finished with a spiralbound sketchbook you can always turn the spiral into a kinetic sculpture. I created this sculpture partly due to my interest in optical illusions and the ambiguity of perception. When the spiral wire of a spiralbound sketchbook is viewed in isolation from the sketchbook the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[68,141,52],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art","category-sculpture","tag-cornwall","tag-mobile","tag-optical-illusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10582"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10594,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions\/10594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}