Spooner’s mechanical artwork looks charming and you appear to feel sympathy for his characters straight away. It also provides a far more warm atmosphere than the metallic works of Jim Bond, for example.
Spooner mainly uses wood and warm colors for his works, which makes it look somehow more friendly. Though, not all of his plots make sense, his topics convey a certain type of humor. The following example, for example, is quite amusing.
The size of the work is usually quite small, which forces the observer to step very close. Sometimes the observer also needs to interact to drive on the machine. Every individual work appears to be on a little stage on their own. When you get very close, you may feel like becoming part of it. It is a rather an intimate experience.
For somebody as unexperienced as me it surely would be very hard to reproduce pieces that demand so much attention to detail and time. Therefore, I could start with producing only a few simple elements and allow the overall look of my work to be a little comparable with Spooner’s work.
Spooner’s work is usually presented within glass boxes. Unfortunately, that would be unsuitable for my project, since some sensors wont be able to work properly. Hence, I need to make sure I come up with an idea how to show my work, so interaction with the observer is possible, but also no destruction can occur. So, putting it up on a pedestal and protecting it with a surrounding fence is an acceptable solution.
Even though my Three Wise Cows project will be influenced by these mechanical applications, I will still use electrical means such as the Arduino. The result will be a mixed media object.
http://www.kinetica-museum.org/new_site/event_seminar_main.php?id=54
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