Wheel of Storms and Stillness

This sculpture is made of multiple casts of my face that were manipulated in clay to have successively different expressions. They are mounted to a wheel that spins freely. When the wheel is in motion circuitry calculates the timing of a strobe light to make the effect that the wheel is still and the solid casts are animating in place. At the same time a tree links their heads together at their center. Its roots and branches storm wildly, like an electric dance that juxtaposes their stillness. The conflicting truths of this piece have led me to many contemplations beyond it. There is a simultaneous bond of stillness and motion, and an illusory duality of the individual and the many that defines them both in an ungraspable flow between them.