suspension

this short TED talk reminds me how much i like to see objects suspended in air. i can't really say why they have such an impact on me, but they do and in a visceral way. it's something about potential energy made tangible. it's something about the magic of seeing an object that should be falling, arrested for one to examine and marvel. and it's also something about delight and feeling like a kid again.

see for yourself here or below.




and then here is a blurry image of a postcard of a sculpture i saw in sydney, australia {2001} by ken unsworth. suspended stone circle II {the first attempt didn't attach the wires from each stone to a support beam so it collapsed bringing down part of the ceiling}. it's comprised of 103 river stones each twice the size of my head and wires that connect each stone to three different beams {for the II attempt} in the ceiling above. it's gorgeous and i still think of it so often that i have never sent my little brother the postcard i wrote to him on the back of the postcard.